Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 95 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- Russian
- Country
- Russia
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In Russian — subtitles on.
The story
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.
- dreams
- spy
- world war ii
- swamp
- flashback
- black and white
- animals
- apple
- based on short story
- flare
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Mykola Hrynko — Gryaznov
- Dmytro Milyutenko — Old Man
- Valentina Malyavina — Masha
- Irma Raush — Ivan's Mother
- Andrei Konchalovsky — Soldier with Glasses
- Ivan Savkin
- Vladimir Marenkov
- Vera Miturich — Girl
- Nikolay Smorchkov — Starshina (uncredited)
- Directed
- Andrei Tarkovsky
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 840 ratings
- Studio
- Tretye Tvorcheskoe Obyedinenie, Mosfilm
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
