Иваново детство

In the movie Иваново детство (Ivan's Childhood) we find a young boy trying to be strong under extraordinary circumstances. At the vary beginning of the film we meet Ivan who is with his mother and running around playing as a child should. Soon after this his mother gets killed, and we find Ivan trying to make it through a swamp behind enemy lines. He is soon found and taken to if I am remembering correct a captain of the Russian Army. We soon find out the Ivan has become a spy. Because he is young he is able to get behind the German lines without getting noticed. Through out the rest of the film we find Ivan in some overwhelming circumstances. The men who are having him sneak behind the lines eventually want him to stop and go to a military school, Ivan does not like this idea and makes it vary well known. Ivan feels that he can do a better job at recon than he was doing and if they would not let him he would run away. What I wondered through the movie is what let him to becoming a spy? I may have missed this. We do also find his picture at the end of the movie in one of hitlers bunkers. I am not sure if he was also spying on the Russian's as well? This was a vary interesting movie, for me I still have mixed feelings about it. I hope to read some of the other class blogs and see how every one else felt about this film.