Ivan's Childhood
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A poetic, melancholic portrait of childhood lost to war, told through dreamlike sequences and intimate bonds forged in darkness.
In WW2, twelve year old Soviet orphan Ivan Bondarev works for the Soviet army as a scout behind the German lines and strikes a friendship with three sympathetic Soviet officers.
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