2) MK2 - Region 0 - PAL TOP MIDDLE

3) Kino Video - Region 0 - NTSC - TOP RIGHT

4) Artificial Eye - Region 0 - PAL - BOTTOM LEFT

5) Spectrum Region 0 - PAL - BOTTOM MIDDLE

6) Artificial Eye (Andrei Tarkovsky Collection) - Region 2 - PAL - BOTTOM RIGHT

Region 0  - PAL

MK2 (France)

Region 0  - PAL

Artificial Eye (Andrei Tarkovsky Collection)

Lizard

MK2

AE (Tarkovsky Collection)

Aspect Ratio:
1:33:1 original aspect ratio

Edition Details:
• Introduction: Interview with scriptwriter Aleksandr Mišarin (1.33:1, color, 32:14)
• Introduction: Interview with politician Grigory Javlinsky (1.33:1, color, 9:45 )
• Biographical Text Pages (2) on Arseny Tarkovsky
• Excerpts of films with Anatoly Solonisyn (1.33:1, b+w and color, 8:18)
• Documentary on Innokenty Smoktunovsky (1.33:1, color, 10:50)
• Documentary on Nikolai Grinko (1.33:1, 3:24)
• Edouard Artemev: Dedication to Tarkovsky (1.33:1, color, 9:14)
• Filmographies: Static screens of 6 crew with imbeded trailers:or Solaris (2.35:1/4:3, 3:20), Nekončennaja p’esa dlja mekhaničeskogo pianino (1.33:1, 1:29), Sinjaja Ptica (1.33:1, 3:06), Sibiriada (1.33:1, 2:21), Dvorjanskoe gnezdo (1.33:1, 3:46)
• Photo Album of 9 images

DVD Release Date: May 25th, 2005
Slim digipak with no sleeve
Chapters: 18
DVD Encoding: PAL Region 0
SS-DL/DVD-9

Aspect Ratio:
1:33:1 original aspect ratio

Edition Details:
• Part of the Andrei Tarkovsky Collection

NOTE: There appears to have been a delay with the release date - but I can assure you it exists as I am holding 3 screeners of the 6 films available in the new set. Exciting times!

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ADDITION: Lizard - Region 0 - PAL - October 05' - The Lizard edition looks quite good - I would say a small notch ahead of the AE and MK2 in terms of sharpness but, of course, its fatal drawback, for most, are the lack of English subtitles. It might very well be vertically stretched a bit and looks more correct to me, at times, next to the other releases. The real conundrum of any transfer of Mirror, is that it cannot be digitally tampered with - there is too much archival footage, often very damaged. So when you boost or de-saturate it become easily apparent in those scenes. Ex. the damage in the balloon sequence is supposed to be there!

If you are keen to own this Lizard edition BEWARE - this is a DVD9 (Dual layer - 6.57 Gb), but Lizard also produces a DVD5 (single layer - 4.33 Gb) of the same film. Big thanks to Denis for supplying these captures! 

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Bottom line for many - the 'new' MK2 is an exact copy of the Artificial Eye (which barring a few subtle differences is an exact copy of the RusCiCo. The Korean editions is the same but was not converted from PAL to NTSC and will have those apparent artifact deficiencies.)

The MK2 offers the same 5.1 and original Russian mono tracks and the same extras which are subtitled. It comes in a slim digipak case with no sleeve.

Major differences in the editions:

 1) The Kino is overly bright and saturated. It has abused the intended color scheme.

2) The initial AE disc did not offer the original mono, but does now.

3) The Korean edition does not have subtitles on the extras.

4) The RusCiCo ports (AE, MK2 and Korean) have a sepia tinge to the black and white sequences.

NOTE: I'd like to think there will one day be a superior edition of this important film. The image is soft and the bitrate indicates it is probably from analog, but for now the definitive choice is either the AE or MK2 dependant on which you can obtain least expensively.