"The Wanderings of Ivan" is the first film of young actor Aram Arakelyan who was born in Armenia. He lives in France and is fluent in Russian. Before this film, he had starred in short films and commercials.
Claude Chamis's first feature film.
This film includes many excerpts from Maurice Blanchot's book "La folie du jour" (The madness of the Day - Gallimard editions). This is the first time that a work by Maurice Blanchot is used in a French feature film.
Filmed in twenty eight days.
The sequence of the Russian church was shot entirely at Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in the eighth district of Paris.