Andrei Tarkovsky

Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (??????? ??????????? ???????????) (April 4, 1932 - December 28, 1986) was a Russian movie director, writer, and actor. He is regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers of the Soviet era in Russia and one of the greatest in the history of cinema.

Biography

Tarkovsky, son of the prominent poet Arseniy Tarkovsky, was a product of the golden era of Soviet arts education. He received a classical education in Moscow, studying Music and Arabic, before training for over five years at the VGIK film school, studying directly under Mikhail Romm among others.

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Arseniy Tarkovsky - Moscow - Music - Arabic - VGIK - Mikhail Romm

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He also worked as a geologist in Siberia.

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Although the Orthodox Christian symbolism of his films led to prevarication and occasional suppression of the finished product by the Soviet authorities, the Soviet Mosfilm studio system enabled him to make films that would not have been commercially viable in the West. However, Tarkovsky's principal complaint about his treatment by the authorities was that he had many more ideas in him than he was allowed to bring to the screen, and in 1984, after shooting Nostalghia in Italy, he decided not to return to Russia. He made only one more film, The Sacrifice, a European co-production filmed in Sweden, before dying of cancer in the suburb of Paris at the early age of 54.

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Orthodox Christian - Mosfilm - 1984 - Nostalghia - Italy - The Sacrifice - Sweden - Cancer - Paris

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Andrei Tarkovsky was buried in a graveyard for Russian émigrés in the town of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, Île-de-France, France.

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Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois - Île-de-France - France

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