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
Nostalghia (1983)
Drama
At a spa in the Tuscan Hills, a Russian poet and musicologist, researching the life of an 18th century composer, meets a mysterious man who is convinced that the end of the world is nigh. The Russian, Andrei Gorchakov (Oleg Yankovsky), is asked to cross an ancient sulphur pool carrying a lighted candle as an act of faith. Tarkovsky's first film outside the USSR is full of personal and Christian symbols and works as a study of such themes as memory, melancholia and disenchantment with the material world.
Starring: Oleg Yankovskiy, Erland Josephson, Delia Boccardo, Milena Vukotic
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
