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
Ivan's Childhood / Ivanovo detstvo (1962)
Drama | War
The debut feature from the great Andrei Tarkovsky, Ivan's Childhood is an evocative, poetic journey through the shadows and shards of one boy's war-torn youth. Moving back and forth between the traumatic realities of WWII and the serene moments of family life before the conflict began, Tarkovsky's film remains one of the most jarring and unforgettable depictions of the impact of violence on children in wartime.
Starring: Nikolay Burlyaev, Nikolay Grinko, Irma Raush, Yevgeni Zharikov
Director: Andrey Tarkovsky
