Ivan and the Dogs

Award winning artist and filmmaker Andrew Kotting adapts Hattie Naylor's curriculum, award-winning play, Ivan and the Dogs, for cinema. Based on the extraordinary true story of Ivan Mishukov, who walked out of his Moscow apartment at the age of four and spent two years living on the city streets where he was adopted by a pack of wild dogs. In the recession-ravaged city, the human world is dominated by deprivation and violence. When social breakdown from extremes of impoverishment, cruelty and selfishness starts to set in, a homeless child's only hope is to turn to feral dogs for company, protection and warmth. This spellbinding story of survival and need conjures the streets of Moscow in the 1990s through the eyes of a child. With innocence and fear, Ivan's perceptions of the world are beautifully described, from the acute awareness of hunger and fear, to the innocent understanding of chemical abuse in the 'empty eyes' of children and the ridiculed 'Bombzi'.

Was not expecting it to be SO GOOD! This has seriously become my favorite movie to date.

Watched it several times and enjoyed it every time.

Lek and the Dogs is one of the best! Between the incredible visuals and the intense soundtrack you will almost be wishing this plot was real!

Very well done. Good casting, photography and plot

I absolutely loved. Xavier Tchili in this! The entire thing was amazing from beginning to end!

Visually stunning with excellent acting! Xavier Tchili is wonderful portraying her character's reactions with great naturalism.

Lek and the Dogs is a mind blowing movie that you just need to see to believe.

Undoubtedly, Lek and the Dogs is one best movies of all time for many reasons and is a film that all people should watch.

It was a very nice movie. Just try to have fun and you will enjoy it.

The actors do a good job. Nice story.