Andrei Tarkovsky Website

Director - Filmography and DVDBeaver links:

Offret - (The Sacrifice) (1986), Nostalghia (1983), Tempo di viaggio (1983), Stalker (1979), Zerkalo (The Mirror) (1975), Solaris (1972), Andrei Rublev (1969), Ivan's Childhood (1962), The Steamroller and the Violin (1960), The Killers (1958)

Suggested Reading

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Sculpting in Time: Reflections on Cinema by Andrei Tarkovsky

Andrei Tarkovsky is considered one of the most significant filmmakers of the 20th century and
the most notable Soviet film-maker of the modern era. Although his appeal often extends to
scholars and academia, his popularity, fueled by his commitment to cinema expressed as poetry and art, has risen extensively in the past few years allowing his small oeuvre of only 7 feature films to be exposed to a much wider audience. Flexing from dense, personal memories (Mirror) to episodic articulations on art's relevant survival (Andrei Rublev) - Tarkovsky's films mark themselves with grand depth of construction, a bold visual expression of thematic time and space and an often inaccessible transcendent spirituality of faith and the unconquerable human spirit. His keen interpretation of the responsibility of the artist strike uncompromisingly bold and unique themes within the ambiguous nature of his narrative structure. The profound magnitude of the 'metaphysical' and inter-personal interpretations resonate most prominently upon re-visitation of his complex films.