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Andrei Tarkovsky - news / articles

WIN! Andrei Tarkovsky DVD Collection - 14 June 2011
- -On 13 June, The Andrei Tarkovsky Collection comes to DVD, complete with the legendary director’s entire filmography plus a feature length biopic - and to mark its release we are giving one lucky winner the chance to get their hands on the entire collection.-

Andrei Tarkovsky - what members say

Solaris review by tunnelweb from Hamilton

An immensely powerful and very human film. 28 March 2010
...Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris is an immensely powerful, and very human, film. I first watched it at University, many years ago, and found myself considering it off and on until n... Read customer review

Stalker review by A customer from North Devon

Real Cinema, not generic formula 25 July 2004
...pective, some from the star, some from genre, this review is director focussed; Andrei Tarkovsky. Tarkovsky who died in 1986 was arguably the poet of Russian Cinema. His ran... Read customer review

Mirror review by Alphavillain from Littlehampton

The Greatest of All Films 8 May 2010
...With 'Mirror', Andrei Tarkovsky moved on from the epic sweep of films such as 'Andrei Rublev' and 'Solaris' to a more fragmented and profound work. People often call 'Mirror'... Read customer review

Andrei Tarkovsky - filmography

The Andrei Tarkovsky Companion (2007)
Starring: Andrei Tarkovsky
Director: Chris Marker, Tonino Guerra, Alexander Sokurov
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Collection of three documentaries profiling one of the leading lights of world cinema; Andrei Tarkovsky, the Russian director of thought-provoking classics such as SOLARIS, STALKER and IVAN'S CHILDHOOD. Documentaries included: Alexander Sokurov's MOSCOW ELEGY, Chris Marker's ONE DAY IN THE LIFE OF ..read more »

72% from 201 members
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Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky (1988)
Starring: Brian Cox, Erland Josephson, Andrei Tarkovsky
Director: Michal Leszczylowski
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During the shooting of Andrei Tarkovsky's last film Offret, cameraman Arne Carlsson taped around 50 hours of behind the scenes footage. Editor Michal Leszczylowski took the material and added scenes of previous interviews and interesting statements from the script of Offret and from Tarkovsky's ..read more »

76% from 3 members
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The Sacrifice on DVD (1986)
Starring: Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Valerie Mairesse
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
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Director Andrei Tarkovsky's final film. In the hours before a nuclear holocaust, a retired actor promises God that he will gladly sacrifice all he has if the disaster can be averted. By the following morning normality is restored ...now he must keep his vow... Swedish dialogue with subtitles.

64% from 2,384 members

Nostalgia (1983)
Starring: Oleg Yankovsky, Domiziana Giordano, Erland Josephson
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
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Director Andrei Tarkovsky recasts his lifelong cinematic motif of humanity's quest for faith in the waterlogged and mist-ensconced countryside of Italy for his philosophical masterpiece NOSTALGIA. Andrei Gorchakov (Oleg Yankovsky) is a misanthropic Russian scholar researching the life of an exiled ..read more »

67% from 1,294 member
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Stalker on DVD (1979)
Starring: Alexander Kaidanovsky, Alissa Freindlich, Anatoli Solonitsyn
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
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With STALKER, Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky returns to the mind-bending, philosophy-tinged science fiction of SOLARIS. The setting is an unnamed country in an unforeseen postapocalyptic future. A meteorite has landed, and its impact has created a mysterious phenomenon known as the Zone, within ..read more »

70% from 4,731 members

The Mirror (1975)
Starring: Anatoly Solonitsyn, Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
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The director mixes flashbacks, historical footage and original poetry to illustrate the reminiscences of a dying man about his childhood during World War II, adolescence, and a painful divorce in his family. The story interweaves reflections about Russian history and society.

78% from 31 members
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Mirror on DVD (1974)
Starring: Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev, Larisa Tarkovskaya
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
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With THE MIRROR, legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky crafts perhaps his most profound and compelling film. What started off for Tarkovsky as a planned series of interviews with his own mother evolved into a lyrical and complex circular meditation on love, loyalty, memory, and history. Time ..read more »

68% from 2,660 members

Solaris on DVD (1972)
Starring: Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Yuri Jarvet
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
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Released in 1972, Solaris is Andrei Tarkovsky's third feature and his most far-reaching examination of human perceptions and failings. It's often compared to Kubrick's 2001, but although both bring a metaphysical dimension to bear on space exploration, Solaris has a claustrophobic intensity which ..read more »

60% from 8,319 members

Andrei Rublev (2 discs) on DVD (1966)
Starring: Anatoly Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
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Director Andrei Tarkovsky's second film, ANDREI RUBLEV, is a massive and sweeping retelling of the life of the 15th-century Russian icon painter and perhaps the first great Russian artist. Unfolding in a free-flowing series of eight episodes, ANDREI RUBLEV follows the painter (Anatoli Solonitsyn) ..read more »

69% from 2,363 members

Ivan's Childhood on DVD (1962)
Starring: Kolya Burlaev, Valentin Zubkov, Yevgeni Zharikov
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
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Visionary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky's first film, MY NAME IS IVAN, is a powerhouse of visual and emotional impact and a portend of many themes Tarkovsky would develop throughout his legendary career. Ivan (Nikolai Burlyayev) is a 12-year-old boy roaming the destroyed landscapes of World ..read more »

73% from 1,720 member

The Steamroller and the Violin (1960)
Starring: Igor Fomchenko, Vladimir Zamansky, Marina Adzhubei
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
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Andrei Tarkovsky became a major international figure in cinema when his breakthrough feature, MY NAME IS IVAN, was released in 1962. This short film was completed two years prior to the film that would begin Tarkovsky's major influence upon world cinema. This endearing short centers around the ..read more »

67% from 15 members
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Andrei Tarkovsky facts

5 most recent films

The Andrei Tarkovsky Companion - 3.5 stars
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - 4.0 stars
The Sacrifice - 3.0 stars
Nostalgia - 3.5 stars
Stalker - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Ivan's Childhood - 3.5 stars
The Andrei Tarkovsky Companion - 3.5 stars
Stalker - 3.5 stars
Andrei Rublev - 3.5 stars
Mirror - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Steamroller and the Violin - 3.0 stars
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky - 4.0 stars
The Mirror - 4.0 stars
Solaris - 3.0 stars
The Sacrifice - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Nikolai Grinko - 4 times - show films
Anatoly Solonitsyn - 4 times - show films
Ivan Lapikov - 3 times - show films
Erland Josephson - 3 times - show films
Margarita Terekhova - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Tonino Guerra - 1 times - show films
Alexander Sokurov - 1 times - show films
Michal Leszczylowski - 1 times - show films
Chris Marker - 1 times - show films