Ivan's Childhood Quotes

  • Ivan: Mamma, there's a cuckoo up there!

  • Ivan's Mother: If a well is really deep, you can see a star down there even in the middle of a sunny day.

  • Ivan: Is he a Fritz too?

    Galtsev: He's either a German doctor or writer.

    Ivan: They have no writers. I saw them burning books in a square. They poured gasoline on them and set them on fire. There was soot in the air for a week.

    Galtsev: That writer lived 400 years ago.

    Ivan: Well, then maybe.

Ivan's Childhood

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

Language: Russian,German Release date: June 27, 1963