Ivan's Childhood (1962)

Nikolay Burlyaev: Ivan Bondarev

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

• 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 : You know who rests up during a war? Useless people.

• Ivan : They sent me out by plane to a boarding school. But I ran away. There's a war on. I can't cram some stupid stuff when it's a war.

• Ivan's Mother : You can see a star in the daytime in a deep well.

  Ivan : Which star?

  Ivan's Mother : Any star.

  Ivan : I see a star, Mama! Why's it shining?

  Ivan's Mother : It's nighttime for the star. That's why it's shining.

  Ivan : Is it nighttime now? No, it's daytime.

  Ivan's Mother : It's daytime for us, but nighttime for the star.

• Ivan : Smoking again? Go on. It'll turn your lungs green.

  Leonid Kholin : So what? Nobody can see them.