Episode 6 - IVAN'S CHILDHOOD (1962), Directed by: Andrei Tarkovsky

Andrei Tarkovsky, still in his late twenties, was quoted as saying that his debut feature would establish whether or not he was capable of being a film director. Upon it's release in 1962, Ivan’s Childhood quickly gained Tarkovsky international recognition, eventually winning the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Ethereal landscapes, poetic imagery, and hallucinatory dream sequences powerfully capture a child's loss of innocence and the harrowing consequences of war. Ingmar Bergman said that his “discovery of Tarkovsky’s first film was like a miracle", and when Italian newspaper L'Unita ran a highly critical review of the film, Jean-Paul Sartre wrote an article defending it as one of the most beautiful movies he'd ever seen. Check us out: Patreon: http://bit.do/eSgD8 Insta:  @desperatelyseekingcinema Twitter:  @desperatecinema Facebook: Desperately Seeking Cinema Jimmy: Insta @jimmydbarnes  Twitter @jimmydbarnes