Language

Audio:

Russian LPCM Mono

Subtitles:

English

Extras

• New high-definition digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
• Interview with film scholar Vida T. Johnson, coauthor of The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue
• New interviews with cinematographer Vadim Yusov and actor Nikolai Burlyaev
• PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by film scholar Dina Iordanova; “Between Two Films,” an essay by Tarkovsky on Ivan’s Childhood; and “Ivan's Willow,” a poem by the director's father, Arseny Tarkovsky

Trailer

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Description

...The childhood of 12-year-old Ivan ended on the day when the Nazis shot his mother and sister in front of his eyes. The boy's father died at the front. Left an orphan, Ivan goes to a military unit and becomes an elusive intelligence officer. At the risk of his life, he obtains invaluable information about the enemy for the command. But war is war...

Director & Cast

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

Cast: Nikolay Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, Evgeny Zharikov, Stepan Krylov, Nikolay Grinko, Dmitry Milyutenko, Valentina Malyavina, Irma Raush, Andrei Konchalovsky, Ivan Savkin