Ivan's Childhood

Opening scenes comprising Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky's quite spectacular debut on the international cinema scene, Nikolai Burlyalev the boy, Irina Tarkovskaya (no relation) his mother, in My Name Is Ivan, (a.k.a. Ivan's Childhood), 1962.

Only roughly taken in by Russian soldiers, Ivan (Nicolai Burlyaev) sleeps, then dreams of his presumably dead mother (Irina Tarkovskaya), in Andrei Tarkovsky's first feature My Name Is Ivan, (a.k.a. Ivan's Childhood), 1962.

Russian officer Kholin (Valentin Zubkov) is wakened by Corporal Katasonov (Stepan Krylov), with news that young Ivan (Nikolai Burlyaev) has presented himself to their custody, early in Andrei Tarkovsky's My Name Is Ivan, (a.k.a. Ivan's Childhood), 1962.