"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."
Nikolay Burlyaev
as Ivan
Valentin Zubkov
as Kholin
Yevgeni Zharikov
as Galtsev
Stepan Krylov
as Katasonov
Nikolay Grinko
as Gryaznov
Dmytro Milyutenko
as Old Man
Valentina Malyavina
as Masha
Irma Raush
as Ivan's Mother
Andrei Konchalovsky
as Soldier with Glasses
Ivan Savkin
as
Vladimir Marenkov
Vera Miturich
as Girl
Nikolay Smorchkov
as Starshina (uncredited)
Andrei Tarkovsky
Director
Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov
Music
Evgeniy Chernyaev
Production Design
Lyudmila Baskakova
Makeup Artist
E. Smirnov
Script Editor
Sergey Mukhin
VFX Artist
Inna Zelentsova
Sound
Lyudmila Feiginova
Editor
Vadim Yusov
Director of Photography
Georgi Natanson
Assistant Director
Gleb Kuznetsov
Production Manager
Vladimir Bogomolov
Novel
Screenplay
Mikhail Papava