After the critical lambasting of his masterpiece Earth, Dovzhenko returned with a more popular iteration of its main motifs. Much like Earth, Ivan concerns itself with the natural rhythms of country life, disrupted by the beat of looming industrialisation.
Director: Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Director of Photography: Yuri Yekelchik, Daniil Demutsky
Producer: Lev Kantorovich