
Ivan's Childhood(1962)
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.


A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.

Margarita Terekhova
Natalya / Maroussia - the Mother

Ignat Daniltsev
Ignat / Alexei - 12 Years Old
Larisa Tarkovskaya
Nadezha

Alla Demidova
Lisa

Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Forensic Doctor

Mykola Hrynko
Printery Director

Tamara Ogorodnikova
Nanny / Neighbour / Strange Woman at Tea Table

Yuriy Nazarov
Rifle Shooting Instructor

Oleg Yankovskiy
The Father

Filipp Yankovsky
Aleksei - 5 Years Old
Mirror is a drama, history film released in 1975 exploring themes of dreams, wind, poetry, world war ii, cigarette, field. Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, it stars Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev, Larisa Tarkovskaya. A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
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