Andrei Rublev / Andrey Rublev (1966)
Biography | Drama | History
The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer.
Starring: Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko, Irina Tarkovskaya, Nikolay Burlyaev, Yuriy Nikulin, Rolan Bykov
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Stalker (1979)
Drama | Sci-Fi
Sci-fi drama from Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky, about two men who are led to their innermost dreams in a strange place once inhabited by aliens. In Tarkovsky's stunningly filmed allegorical fantasy, a Stalker (Aleksandr Kaidanovsky) leads a Writer (Anatoli Solonitsyn) and a Professor (Nikolai Grinko) through an industrial wasteland called the Zone, in search of a room where Truth is contained.
Starring: Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko, Alisa Freyndlikh
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Zerkalo / The Mirror (1975)
Biography | Drama
Writer-director Andrei Tarkovsky draws on episodes from his own life in this story of a dying man reflecting on his relationships with his parents, wife and son. The film includes a number of reflections on the Russian people and their history, using the life of one man to consider the Russian experience from the Second World War through to the end of the Stalinist period. The film also features Tarkovsky's father reading his own poems and his mother (Larisa Tarkovskaya) playing the role of the on-screen matriarch.
Starring: Margarita Terekhova, Oleg Yankovskiy, Nikolay Grinko, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Alla Demidova
Director: Andrey Tarkovskiy
The Ascent / Voskhozhdeniye (1977)
Drama | War
Two Soviet partisans depart their starving band on a short march to a nearby farm to get supplies. The Germans have reached the farm first, so the pair must go on a journey deep into occupied territory, a voyage that will also take them deep into their souls.
Starring: Boris Plotnikov, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Sergey Yakovlev, Lyudmila Polyakova, Viktoriya Goldentul, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Mariya Vinogradova, Nikolai Sektimenko
Director: Larisa Shepitko
