Russia

Andrei Tarkovsky

14 films · 1958 to 1986

Born 4 April 1932, Zavrazhye, USSR · Died 29 December 1986

Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Russian origin. He is widely considered one of the greatest directors in cinema history. His films explore spiritual and metaphysical themes and are known for their slow pacing and long takes, dreamlike visual imagery, and preoccupation with nature and memory. Tarkovsky studied film at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography under filmmaker Mikhail Romm and subsequently directed his first five features in the Soviet Union: Ivan's Childhood (1962), Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1972), Mirror (1975), and Stalker (1979). After years of creative conflict with state film authorities, he left the country in 1979 and made his final two films, Nostalghia (1983) and The Sacrifice (1986), abroad. In 1986, he published Sculpting in Time, a book about cinema and art.

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