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.

Filmography

• The Steamroller and the Violin (1960) - Tarkovsky's graduation film from VGIK, the Soviet State Film School, cowritten with Andrei Konchalovsky.
• My Name is Ivan / Ivan's Childhood (1962) - Winner of Golden Lion for "Best Film" at 1962 Venice Film Festival. Set in the Second World War, this is Tarkovsky's most conventional feature film, although it still has moments of lyrical beauty.
• Andrei Rublev (1966) - An epic based on the life of Andrei Rublev, the most famous medieval Russian painter of icons.
• Solaris (1972) - based on the science fiction novel by Stanis?aw Lem and often said to be Tarkovsky's personal response to what he considered the coldness of Kubrick's '.
• Mirror (1975) - A loosely autobiographical reconstruction of key scenes in Tarkovsky's life, the film he'd tried to make earlier but abandoned for Solaris (we can note thematic ties between them). Said by Tarkovsky to be closest to his own vision of cinema.
• Stalker (1979) - inspired by the novel Roadside Picnic by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky.
• Tempo di Viaggio/Italian Journey (1982) - a documentary made for Italian television while scouting locations for Nostalghia with Italian co-writer (and frequent screenwriter for Michelangelo Antonioni) Tonino Guerra.
• Nostalghia (1983) - A Russian scholar retraces the footsteps of an 18th century Russian composer in Italy. An encounter with a local lunatic - a man who believes he can save humanity by carrying a lit candle across an empty swimming pool - crystalizes the poet's melancholic sense of longing for his family, faith, and homeland.
• The Sacrifice (1986) - The film is about the prospect of nuclear annihilation and man's spiritual response to this and other dilemmas set in counterpoint to a minor fable of failed adultery.