Lamakaan

Performing Classical Dance (Bharatnatyam)

Film Title: The Bridge on the River Kwai | 1957 | 161 minutes | English language |

About the film: The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the 1952 novel written by Pierre Boulle. Although the film uses the historical setting of the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–1943, the plot and characters of Boulle's novel and the screenplay are almost entirely fictional. The cast includes William Holden, Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, and Sessue Hayakawa.

It was initially scripted by screenwriter Carl Foreman, who Michael Wilson later replaced. Both writers had to work in secret, as they were on the Hollywood blacklist and had fled to the UK in order to continue working. As a result, Boulle, who did not speak English, was credited and received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay; many years later, Foreman and Wilson posthumously received the Academy Award.

SCREENING FOLLOWED BY DISCUSSION! ALL ARE WELCOME!!! ENTRY IS FREE & OPEN TO ALL!!!

Mr. Frans Hakkemars, a Dutch puppeteer with 45 years of experience, will perform the Netherlands special-Jan Klaassen Hand/Glove Puppet show and Dream Suitcase Shadow Puppet Play as part of the Women's Day "Women Life Freedom"-A voice to support Women in Iran. It is an honour for Sphoorthi Theatre STEPARC to welcome Mr. Hakkemars.

Remembering Parveen Shakir on International Women's Day
Presenters
Smt. Lakshmi Devi Raj
Promoter of Art and Culture, Particularly, Theater, Music and Dance, Will Preside

Dr. Raunaque A. Rais
Associate Professor and Head Department of Urdu BNN collage, Memberof Board of Studies, University of Mumbai

Prof. Ashraf Rafi
Former Head of Dept. Urdu
Osmania University

కమ్ ఈట్ విత్ మీ! మన హైదరాబాద్ లో!
'Come eat with me' is coming to Hyderabad!

About the show:
Come Eat With Me is a performance piece that explores the relationship between caste and food while sharing a meal together. Focusing on Dalit Cuisine, the piece begins with personal stories and oral histories around food in my household and community and is peppered with existing literature and academic writing about the multilayered, many-flavored relationships between caste and food.

The event is pay as you like!

ENTRY only through prior Registration.

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This event is part of Lamakaan’s 13th Anniversary Celebrations (10th March - 16th March 2023)

Qabila presents we push the sky at Lamakaan on their 13th anniversary!

Friends, Faith, Future - wepushthesky invites you to listen to what lies beneath the surface. The protagonist weaves personal stories and community histories into a powerful account of friendships lost and found. In the midst of loud and divisive political rhetoric, the play is an affirmation of our ability to forge belonging from the sharp edges of our differences.
Suitable for ages 14+

wepushthesky trailer:
https://youtube.com/shorts/i6m-6u6ZY0w?feature=share

Cast and Credits:

Script & Performance: Nisha Abdulla
Production Manager: Shradha Raj
Sound Design: Pardafash
Light Design: Madhusudan and Arun DT
Set Execution: Gowtham (Bheema)
Design & Direction: Ujwala Rao

Entry Rs.200/-through registration. Use the link below to register (Mandatory).

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This event is part of Lamakaan’s 13th Anniversary Celebrations (10th March - 16th March 2023)

Rich Media, Poor Journalism A talk by Hartosh Singh Bal

In this talk, Hartosh will explore how media houses have become richer and richer over time. On the other hand, the quality of journalism, despite its significance as a profession, is surprisingly and disturbingly poor.

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This event is part of Lamakaan’s 13th Anniversary Celebrations (10th March - 16th March 2023)

Purane Gaane with Yaseen Khan is a medley of old songs played on Violin.

Amongst the rare few players of Rabab and a master of Violin, Mohd Yaseen Khan has lent his music to numerous movies in a nearly five-decade-long career.

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This event is part of Lamakaan’s 13th Anniversary Celebrations (10th March - 16th March 2023)

'Dance & Dialogue' is a special performance by Haleem Khan and his team, breaking the conventions around art traditions of dance forms.

About the event: In this interactive session, Haleem Khan and his team will engage the audience with performance and expressions that can complement to create a unique and powerful experience of Kuchipudi.

Kuchipudi is a classical Indian dance form that originated in Andhra Pradesh in southern India. It is believed to have been developed by the Bhakti movement saints in the 17th century, who used dance to express their devotion to Lord Krishna.

The dance form is characterized by its intricate footwork, graceful movements, and emotive expressions. It is performed with a combination of dance, music, and storytelling and often portrays stories from Hindu mythology and folklore.

Kuchipudi dance is known for its unique movement style, which includes swift and sharp footwork, intricate hand gestures, and fluid body movements. It also involves using facial expressions to convey emotions and the performance's narrative.

About Haleem Khan: Haleem Khan is an Indian Kuchipudi dancer, performer, and movie actor, born on 10 April in Ongole of Andhra Pradesh, and presently lives in Hyderabad. Haleem has performed more than 800 dance shows across the world, as well as conducted Kuchipudi workshops overseas. Haleem specializes in Rupanurupam (female impersonation) within Kuchipudi; he is well known for performing Bhama Kalapam and various roles in Annamacharya kirtanas. Hailing from a Muslim family in a small town, Haleem faced many difficulties learning Kuchipudi without his family knowing it. Initially, Haleem performed under the stage name of Hari. His dance, especially the female impersonation, has given him critical acclaim and won him many awards and felicitations. Haleem is passionate about preserving the art and is working on an interactive Kuchipudi dance instruction video.

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This event is part of Lamakaan’s 13th Anniversary Celebrations (10th March - 16th March 2023)

Coming 23rd March is the martyrdom day of Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev and Rajguru. The ideas of these great revolutionaries are increasingly becoming more relevant than ever as our country is faced up with the huge problems of unemployment, job losses, hunger, malnutrition. inglation, corruption and communalism.

Against this backdrop. we are organising the screening of Gauhar Raza's 40 minutes long documentary film 'Inqilab' followed by a discussion on 'The relevance of Bhagat Singh's ideas in today's India.

We heartily invite all those who are concerned with the problems listed above and are seeking to find answers to them.

Contact: 9971196111

PRECIOUS IVIE

Director: Sarah Blaßkiewitz
Duration: 109 minutes
Age: 16+
Language: German; Subtitles: English

Ivie's view of herself begins to waver when her half-sister suddenly shows up and not only talks about the upcoming funeral of their father in Senegal, but above all sharpens Ivie's awareness of the everyday racism to which she is exposed as an Afro-German. An impressive debut about self-discovery and diversity.
Naomi, Ivie's half-sister, whom Ivie didn't even know existed, suddenly appears at the apartment door and tells Ivie of the upcoming funeral of their father in Senegal. For Ivie, who grew up with her white mother in Leipzig and is now looking for a job after having just finished her teacher training, this is an all-the-more intense confrontation with her own "African" background. During their extensive conversations, Naomi above all sharpens Ivie's view of her own identity as an Afro-German, and of all the everyday experiences of racism and discrimination that regularly happen to Ivie despite her privileged situation as an academic – and that are all too often not even meant to be evil, but arise from ignorance, habit, or thoughtlessness. In her affecting, occasionally cheerful and occasionally painful debut film about the self-discovery of a young woman, director Sarah Blaßkiewitz gives herself and her actors a lot of time for the development of the characters and their life worlds.

Barking Dog is a Hindi sitcom written by Vishal Vijay, inspired by The Zoo Story by American playwright Edward Albee.

The play explores themes of isolation, loneliness,miscommunication as anathematization, social disparity and dehumanization in a materialistic world.
The story, in simplest terms, is about how a man who is consumed with loneliness starts up a conversation with another man on a bench in a Park and eventually forces him to participate in an act of violence.

WORLD PUPPETRY DAY CELEBRATIONS 2023
NAPC will be celebrating WPD 2023 by giving a puppet SHOW- This day is for the celebration of the art of Puppetry. Many are not aware of this art and a brief introduction to the art and the various types of puppets will be given followed by a performance.
A Story from the Panchatantra- The Ungrateful man. Even though the stories from Panchatantra are ancient they still have lessons which our modern society can learn from. T
Different types of contemporary puppets and techniques like Rod puppet, glove and shadow and large puppets will be used to bring alive the story .

March brings the blooming flowers and the great joys of David Lean's films to Lamakaan.

About David Lean: Sir David Lean CBE (25 March 1908 – 16 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor. Widely considered one of the most influential figures in British cinema, Lean directed the large-scale epics The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and A Passage to India (1984).[1] He also directed the film adaptations of two Charles Dickens novels, Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948), as well as the romantic drama Brief Encounter (1945).

Originally a film editor in the early 1930s, Lean made his directorial debut with 1942's In Which We Serve, the first of four collaborations with Noël Coward. Beginning in the Summertime of 1955, Lean started to make internationally co-produced films financed by the big Hollywood studios; in 1970, however, the critical failure of his film Ryan's Daughter led him to take a fourteen-year break from filmmaking, during which he planned many film projects which never came to fruition. In 1984 he had a career revival with A Passage to India, adapted from E. M. Forster's novel; it was an instant hit with critics but proved to be the last film Lean would direct.

Lean's affinity for pictorialism and inventive editing techniques has led him to be lauded by directors such as Steven Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, and Ridley Scott. Lean was voted 9th greatest film director of all time in the British Film Institute Sight & Sound "Directors' Top Directors" poll in 2002. Nominated seven times for the Academy Award for Best Director, which he won twice for The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia, he has seven films in the British Film Institute's Top 100 British Films (with three of them being in the top five) and was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1990.

Film Title: Lawrence of Arabia | 1962 | 210 minutes | English language |

About the film: Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 British epic historical drama film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence and his 1926 book Seven Pillars of Wisdom. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Sam Spiegel, through his British company Horizon Pictures and distributed by Columbia Pictures. The film stars Peter O'Toole as Lawrence with Alec Guinness playing Prince Faisal. The film also stars Jack Hawkins, Anthony Quinn, Omar Sharif, Anthony Quayle, Claude Rains and Arthur Kennedy. Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson wrote the screenplay.

The film depicts Lawrence's experiences in the Ottoman provinces of Hejaz and Greater Syria during the First World War, particularly his attacks on Aqaba and Damascus and his involvement in the Arab National Council. Its themes include Lawrence's emotional struggles with the violence inherent in war, his identity, and his divided allegiance between his native Britain with its army, and his new-found comrades within the Arabian desert tribes.

The film was nominated for ten Oscars at the 35th Academy Awards in 1963, winning seven, including Best Picture and Best Director. It also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama and the BAFTA Awards for Best Film and Outstanding British Film. The dramatic score by Maurice Jarre and the Super Panavision 70 cinematography by Freddie Young also won praise from critics.

Lawrence of Arabia is regarded as one of the greatest films ever made.


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Hirawal, a political musical group from Patna, will be singing songs of resistance.

Inspired by farmers’ movements in Bihar's villages and small towns, the music and drama troupe Hirawal was founded in 1981 by theatre artist Maheshwar. Based in Patna, the team has been singing folk songs for the last 40 years, with performances in several cities of the country and villages of Bihar. It has also organized the Patna film festival for the last 13 years. Hirawal has taught people progressive writing in Bhojpuri, Urdu, and Hindi through songs and plays. They have also composed music for literary works and performed them for the masses. The troupe is supported fully by contributions from people and has stayed away from corporate funds.

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SHUDRKA HYDERABAD PRESENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH HYDERABAD BANGALEE SAMITY 3 DAY MULTILINGUAL THEATRE FESTIVAL

Debasish Chatterjee is a renowned Make-up artist from Kolkata, India. Throughout his more than 15 years of professional experience he has never stopped honing his craft. Specialized in theatrical and show makeup in Blind Opera and Bratyojon, today he works on national and regional live productions, photo shoots and film sets of Tara TV, Alpha TV and Aakash Bangla, Web-series like Pinki Rani, and can easily adapt to a variety of working situations. He was the make-up artist for the award winning film titled “THE VILLAGE BOY”.He is coming to Hyderabad to conduct a workshop on Make-up Artistry for Cinema, Theatre, WebSeries, TV Serials and Weekend Parties, and to making some magic with you!

SHUDRKA HYDERABAD PRESENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH HYDERABAD BANGALEE SAMITY 3 DAY MULTILINGUAL THEATRE FESTIVAL

3 DAY MULTILINGUAL THEATE FESTIVAL

Kaam4U Foundation Volunteer Meet.We would need a private space for 15 people

SHUDRKA HYDERABAD PRESENTS IN ASSOCIATION WITH HYDERABAD BANGALEE SAMITY 3 DAY MULTILINGUAL THEATRE FESTIVAL

A freelance photographer who, by necessity, spends all of his time alone and constantly considers his sleep dreams which are not goals about nature in the current period and how to realise them

March brings the blooming flowers and the great joys of David Lean's films to Lamakaan.

About David Lean: Sir David Lean CBE (25 March 1908 – 16 April 1991) was an English film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor. Widely considered one of the most influential figures in British cinema, Lean directed the large-scale epics The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence of Arabia (1962), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and A Passage to India (1984).[1] He also directed the film adaptations of two Charles Dickens novels, Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948), as well as the romantic drama Brief Encounter (1945).

Originally a film editor in the early 1930s, Lean made his directorial debut with 1942's In Which We Serve, the first of four collaborations with Noël Coward. Beginning in the Summertime of 1955, Lean started to make internationally co-produced films financed by the big Hollywood studios; in 1970, however, the critical failure of his film Ryan's Daughter led him to take a fourteen-year break from filmmaking, during which he planned many film projects which never came to fruition. In 1984 he had a career revival with A Passage to India, adapted from E. M. Forster's novel; it was an instant hit with critics but proved to be the last film Lean would direct.

Lean's affinity for pictorialism and inventive editing techniques has led him to be lauded by directors such as Steven Spielberg, Stanley Kubrick, Martin Scorsese, and Ridley Scott. Lean was voted 9th greatest film director of all time in the British Film Institute Sight & Sound "Directors' Top Directors" poll in 2002. Nominated seven times for the Academy Award for Best Director, which he won twice for The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia, he has seven films in the British Film Institute's Top 100 British Films (with three of them being in the top five) and was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1990.

Film Title: A Passage to India | 1984 | 163 minutes | English language |

About the film: A Passage to India is a 1984 epic historical drama directed and edited by David Lean. The screenplay is based on the 1960 play of the same name by Santha Rama Rau, which was based on the 1924 novel of the same name by E. M. Forster.

Set in the 1920s during the British Raj, the film tells the story of the interactions of several characters in the fictional city of Chandrapore, namely Dr. Aziz, Mrs. Moore, Adela Quested, and Richard Fielding. When a newcomer to India, Adela, accuses Aziz of an attempted rape within the famed Marabar Caves, the city is split between the British elite and the native underclass as the budding friendship between Aziz and Fielding is tested. The film explores themes of racism, imperialism, religion, and the nature of friendly and marital relationships.

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'The Queen, The Courtesan, The Doctor, The Writer: 50 Inspiring Stories of Muslims' is an assembly of Muslim women and men, meant to serve as a reminder of the contribution of Muslims to India and to social reform, and promotes the secular, democratic, pluralistic principles enshrined in the Constitution of India.

Written by Sabah Khan, a feminist activist, and co-founder of Parcham, an organization committed to a just world, respectful of diversity best known for introducing the football initiative for adolescent girls in Muslim ghettos in Mumbai; the book comes to life visually with illustrations by Neelima P Aryan.

Samahaara Theatre Festival 2023

Day 1

Sunkara Satyanarayana & Vasireddy Bhaskar Rao`s

"MAA BHOOMI"

A Play in Telugu


Directed by Rathna Shekar


MAA BHOOMI written by Sunkara Satyanarayana and Vaasireddy Bhaskar Rao deals with atrocities of the Zamindars and the autocratic rule of the Nizam of Hyderabad. Written in 1947 this political drama gives us a glimpse of life in rural Telangana and how people suffered under the burden of taxation & the exploitation of the Deshmukh’s.

125 groups were formed to perform Maa Bhoomi in 1947 and within a year they had completed thousand performances and around twenty lakh people watched the play. The play was written to support the armed struggle taken up by the peasants all across Telangana. The main targets of attack were the forced grain levy, the practice of veth begar, illegal exaction`s and illegal seizures of land.

This is a Hybrid mode meeting organized in memory of PV Sateesh.

Google Meet Video Call Link (for those who want to join virtually):

https://meet.google.com/qwc-fnnm-uyg


Known as the Millet Man of Telangana, PV Satheesh, founder and executive director of the Deccan Development Society (DDS), passed away on the 19th of March, 2023 morning while undergoing treatment at a corporate hospital in Hyderabad after a prolonged illness. He was 77. The last rites were performed in the Pastapur village of Sangareddy district.

Periyapatna Venkatasubbaiah Satheesh, also known as PV Satheesh, was an Indian journalist, television producer, and social activist. He was born in Mysore on June 18, 1945, and graduated from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi.

Satheesh worked as a television producer for almost two decades for Doordarshan, where he produced programs related to rural development and literacy in the Andhra Pradesh region. He played a significant role in the Satellite Instructional Television Experiment (SITE) in the 1970s, which aimed to educate rural communities through satellite-based communication.

In the early 1980s, Satheesh co-founded the Deccan Development Society (DDS) with some of his friends in the Zaheerabad region of Telangana. The organization focused on empowering poor Dalit women in villages through various programs to address issues such as hunger, malnutrition, land degradation, loss of biodiversity, gender injustice, and social deprivation. He led DDS for nearly four decades, turning it into an internationally acclaimed NGO that inspired similar initiatives across India.

Satheesh's efforts at DDS resulted in improved livelihood.

The following persons will speak at the memorial meeting:
1. Krishna Rao Ex-Doordarshan producer,
2. Raju garu, supports Millet farmers and Millet sales
3. Ms Sheelu Francis, founder of the Women's Network in Tamil Nadu.
4. Ms Seno, North East Network, Nagaland.
5. Ms Saraswathi and Mr Jogi Naidu, partners of Millet Sisters Network.
6. Sheik Anwar, Azim Premji Foundation
7. Kavitha Kuruganti, Alliance for Sustainable & Holistic Agriculture (ASHA)
8. Ashish Kothari, well-known environmentalist with Kalpavriksh and Vikalp Sangam
9. Prof Vinod Pavarala, SN School of Arts and Communication, University of Hyderabad
10. Rukmini Rao, Board Member of DDS
11. Ashhar Farhan, Co-founder Lamakaan & Daana
12. Elahe Hiptoola, Co-founder Lamakaan & Film Producer
and others

ALL ARE INVITED!

Samahaara Theatre Festival 2023

Day 2

A double bill of popular Telugu plays

Gollapudi Maruti Rao`s

"KALLU"

&

Gandavaram Subbarami Reddy`s

"AAGANDI NENU VASTUNNA"


Directed by Rathna Shekar

KALLU (EYES), is a play about a group of people who are blind. They pool enough money by begging and for the collective good of the group they decide to get one of them eyes. What happens when one of them can see? Will the others be taken care of or exploited?

AAGANDI NENU VASTUNNAA is a play about Seetharamayya and his son Satyam. Seetharamayya is an orthodox middle class father who hates the creative field (Theatre/Acting). Satyam a very passionate and talented actor tries to change his fathers opinion. Will Satyam succeed?

The first time we rode an auto, we gripped the handle. We held on to our friends. The thrill of the drives mixed with the fear for our lives. But the fear soon turned as visceral as a passing breeze. Distances in the city narrowed on the map with a moving green and yellow square. Distances between us closed with a ride. We move in the city. We move with autos.

"Honk, Please!" Remind me of how I first felt. How I still feel.

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"Honk, Please!" is Napkins’ second interactive art exhibition where visitors are still the creators and curators. Napkins is an art and literary organization at Minerva University—a traveling university. Artists, writers, poets, students, working adults, retirees—whether making something creative is your first time or part of your everyday routine—come together to this space. At "Honk, Please!", visitors will experience different creative spaces centered around the theme of autorickshaws. All spaces involve participants creating something, anything—with words or pictures, verbal or non-verbal. Every creation will be curated into final installations whose forms will only be determined as the creation occurs.

Samahaara Theatre Festival 2023

Day 3

An adaptation of Agatha Christie`s

"AND THEN THERE WERE NONE"

(English Play)


Directed by Rathna Shekar

Eight strangers arrive on an island invited by an unknown host. Each of them has a secret to hide and a crime for which they must pay. The strangers include a reckless playboy, a troubled Harley Street doctor, a formidable judge, an uncouth detective, an unscrupulous mercenary, a God-fearing spinster, two restless servants, a highly decorated general and an anxious secretary. One by one they are picked off. Who will survive? And who is the killer? Copies of an ominous nursery rhyme hang in the room, the murders mimicking the awful fates of its ‘Ten Little Soldier Boys’.

This month Lamakaan brings films of one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the world of cinema.

About Andrei Tarkovsky: Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (Russian: Андрей Арсеньевич Тарковский, IPA: [ɐnˈdrʲej ɐrˈsʲenʲjɪvʲɪtɕ tɐrˈkofskʲɪj]; 4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) was a Russian filmmaker. Widely considered one of cinema's greatest and most influential directors, his films explore spiritual and metaphysical themes. They are noted for their slow pacing, long takes, dreamlike visual imagery, and preoccupation with nature and memory.

Tarkovsky studied film at Moscow's VGIK under filmmaker Mikhail Romm and subsequently directed his first five features in the Soviet Union: Ivan's Childhood (1962), Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1972), Mirror (1975), and Stalker (1979). A number of his films from this period are ranked among the best films ever made. After years of creative conflict with state film authorities, Tarkovsky left the country in 1979 and made his final two films abroad; Nostalghia (1983) and The Sacrifice (1986) were produced in Italy and Sweden, respectively. In 1986, he also published a book about cinema and art entitled Sculpting in Time. He died later that year of cancer, possibly caused by the toxic locations used in the filming of Stalker.

Tarkovsky was the recipient of several awards at the Cannes Film Festival throughout his career (including the FIPRESCI prize, the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, and the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury and winner of the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival for his debut film Ivan's Childhood. In 1990, he was posthumously awarded the Soviet Union's prestigious Lenin Prize. Three of his films—Andrei Rublev, Mirror, and Stalker—were featured in Sight & Sound's 2012 poll of the 100 greatest films of all time.


Film Title: Ivan's Childhood | 1964 | 94 minutes | Russian language subtitled in English |

About the film: Ivan's Childhood (Russian: Ива́ново де́тство, romanized: Ivanovo detstvo), sometimes released as My Name Is Ivan in the US, is a 1962 Soviet war drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. Co-written by Mikhail Papava, Andrei Konchalovsky, and an uncredited Tarkovsky, it is based on Vladimir Bogomolov's 1957 short story "Ivan". The film features child actor Nikolai Burlyayev, Valentin Zubkov, Evgeny Zharikov, Stepan Krylov, Nikolai Grinko, and Tarkovsky's wife Irma Raush.

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. 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."

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