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'''''Ivan's Childhood''''' ({{lang-ru|Ива́ново де́тство|''Ivanovo detstvo''}}), sometimes released as '''''My Name Is Ivan''''' in the US, is a 1962 [[USSR|Soviet]] [[War film|war]] [[Drama (film and television)|drama film]] and the first feature film directed by [[Andrei Tarkovsky]].
''Ivan's Childhood'' tells the story of orphaned boy Ivan, whose parents were killed by the invading German forces, and his experiences during [[World War II]]. ''Ivan's Childhood'' was one of several Soviet films of its period, such as ''[[The Cranes Are Flying]]'' and ''[[Ballad of a Soldier]]'', that looked at the human cost of war and did not glorify the war experience as did films produced before the [[Khrushchev Thaw]].<ref name=auto>{{cite video|people=Vida T. Johnson | title = "Life as a Dream"|medium=DVD|publisher=[[The Criterion Collection]]|year=2007}}</ref> In a 1962 interview, Tarkovsky stated that in making the film he wanted to "convey all [his] hatred of war", and that he chose childhood "because it is what contrasts most with war."<ref>{{cite book|author=Gianvito, John|title=Andrei Tarkovsky: Interviews ([[Conversations with Filmmakers Series]]|year=2006|publisher=University Press of Mississippi|isbn=1-57806-220-9|page=3}}</ref>
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