Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Name Is Ivan. This extraordinary Russian film tells the story of the tender relationship between twelve-year-old Ivan, who is a spy behind the Nazi lines, and the Russian army officers who respect his bravery but worry over his lost childhood. Director Tarkovsky not only dares to show the Soviet hero as an individual troubled with doubts and fears but, even more surprisingly, also uses Christian symbolism in a most un-Soviet fashion...
...Name Is Ivan. This extraordinary Russian film tells the tender and compelling story of the relationship between twelve-year-old Ivan, who is a spy behind the Nazi lines, and the Russian army officers who respect his bravery but worry over his loss of innocence. Director Tarkovsky not only dares to show the Soviet hero as an individual troubled with doubts and fears, but, even more surprisingly, also uses Christian symbolism in a most un-Soviet fashion...
...Understood. From there the plot thickened-and sickened. A dapper little fellow in a blue trench coat showed up at the apartment a few moments later, introduced himself to Vanya as "Ivan Ivanovich, your brother's driver." He added cryptically: "We have been trying to meet you for two days. We wanted to see you alone-to avoid trouble. You understand?" Vanya was pretty sure he understood. When the pair left, he called...
...nights later, Volodya, Ivan and Vanya met again. Hidden all around were FBI men, eavesdropping, shooting movies and taking still pictures They quickly identified Ivan the Driver as Gennadi G. Sevastyanov, 33-a Russian "diplomat" carried on the rolls of the Soviet embassy as a "cultural attaché." He was actually a member of KGB-the Soviet secret police, trying to recruit a spy. "Which side are you on-ours or the Americans?" he asked Vanya. "You could better your position in life if you would cooperate." He quizzed Vanya about his intelligence work, told him candidly: "We want operational...
...rest of this glowing Russian film follows Ivan through the days before his last spy mission. Ivan's dreams of his happy childhood so recently past come back to torture him when he sleeps. And always the dreams end in a moment of nightmare. For the most part, the reality of war is felt only in the occasional crack of a sniper's rifle or the firefly descent of flares, but its effect on Ivan and his comrades shows in their gropings for reassurance from one another. Even Masha, a girl medical officer with eyes like a grey...