Andrei Tarkovsky
Also Known As: Andrei Tarkovskiy, Андрей Тарковский, Andrej Tarkovskij, Andrei Tarkovski, 安德烈·塔尔科夫斯基, أندري تاركوفسكي, アンドレイ・タルコフスキー, 안드레이 타르콥스키, Andrei Tarkovskij, Andrey Arsenyevich Tarkovsky, Andrey A. Tarkovsky, Андрей Арсеньевич Тарковский, Andrey Tarkovsky, آندری تارکوفسکی, 安德烈·塔可夫斯基, 안드레이 타르코프스키, אנדרי טרקובסקי, Andriej Tarkowski
Biography: Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (April 4, 1932 – December 29, 1986) was a Soviet filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist and opera director, widely regarded as one of the finest filmmakers of the 20th century. Tarkovsky's films include Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Mirror and Stalker. They are characterized by spirituality and metaphysical themes, long takes, lack of conventional dramatic structure and plot, and distinctively authored use of cinematography.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Zavrazhye, USSR
Birthday: April 04, 1932
Deathday: December 29, 1986
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Gender: Male
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Voyage in Time
Overview: The travels in Italy of director Andrei Tarkovsky in preparation for the making of his film Nostalghia.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-03-27
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The Killers
Overview: The Killers is a 1956 student film by the Soviet and Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky and his fellow students Marika Beiku and Aleksandr Gordon. The film is based on the short story "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway, written in 1927. It was Tarkovsky's first film, produced when he was a student at the State Institute of Cinematography.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
Overview: This documentary offers a rare glimpse of the legendary Soviet filmmaker, Andrei Tarkosvky, at work. Tarkovsky made only seven films in his brief, but brilliant, career; Michal Leszczylowski's respectful movie chronicles him at work on his last film, The Sacrifice. Offering insight into Tarkovsky's working methods and transcendental aesthetics, the movie is a compelling account of the difficulties of film production. In the case of an uncompromising and visionary filmmaker like Tarkovsky, the practical problems of filmmaking are only magnified, as cast and crew struggle to realize the ambitious concepts in Tarkovsky's mind.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1988-09-23
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Andrei Tarkovsky: A Poet in the Cinema
Overview: An extensive interview with legendary director Andrei Tarkovsky conducted by Donatello Baglivo.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Rerberg and Tarkovsky. The Reverse Side of 'Stalker'
Overview: The conflict surrounding the production of Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 masterpiece 'Stalker', as well as a look at the tragic character that was Georgi Rerberg.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2009-01-22
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Moscow Elegy
Overview: A 1988 documentary film directed by Alexander Sokurov, about the later life and death of Soviet Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. The film was originally intended to mark the 50th birthday of Tarkovsky in 1982, which would have been before his death. Controversy with Soviet authorities about the film's style and content led to significant delays in the production.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1987-04-04
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The Road to Bresson
Overview: A Dutch documentary about legendary French filmmaker Robert Bresson.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1984-05-13
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Islands
Overview: A bunch of stories, portraits and images about people of amazing destinies, including Parajanov and Tarkovsky, merging into a non-traditional and polemic image of Armenia.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: hy
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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On the Set of «Andrey Rublev»
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1967-08-01
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Andrey Tarkovsky & Sergey Paradzhanov: Islands
Overview: The art, destiny, and relationship of two geniuses of world cinema: Andrei Tarkovsky and Sergei Parajanov.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Tarkovsky: A Journey to His Beginning
Overview: Japanese TV documentary about Andrei Tarkovsky The Japanese (NHK) documentary "Tarkovsky: A Journey to His Beginning", presented here, was first aired on 11 May 1996. Edited by Ms Tomoko Baba, the running time is 45 minutes. It's essentially a documentary surrounding the making of Andrei Tarkovsky's student short, The Killers (released by the Criterion Collection), based on the Hemingway short story.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-11
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Lighting
Overview: A documentary on Sven Nykvist lighting the movie-set during the shooting of Andrei Tarkovsky's film "The Sacrifice."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
Overview: A documentary about the Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. The film was an episode of the French documentary film series Filmmakers of our time. The title of the film is a play on the title of Solzhenitsyn's novella One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.
Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-05-15
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Let Me See
Overview: A docudrama based on stills from the film "The Sacrifice" (Offret) by Andrei Tarkovsky. Sven Nykvist and Andrei Tarkovsky meet in a final conversation where they jointly find relief before the implacable, captured in the only substantial composed, their timeless images.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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Daedalus
Overview: "Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." Daedalus weaves a tale of ambition and caution through an ancient myth, set in a nation below sea level. Shot in just seven consecutive days during the summer of 2023, it concludes the first volume of Bliss, a playlist of sounds and shapes. As the master craftsman gifts his son wings and wisdom, the film delves into the perilous dance between striving for greatness and the suffocating pull of stagnancy. This chaotic exploration bridges the warnings and epiphanic thoughts of 20th-century thinkers with the responses of today's dreamers.
Genres: Music Mystery Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-07-17
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The Exile and Death of Andrei Tarkovsky
Overview: A documentary about the life of Andrei Tarkovsky in exile in Western Europe including Italy, Sweden, Germany and France until his sad demise to a fatal cancer.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-02-14
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Andrey Tarkovsky in Nostalghia
Overview: A poetic and intimate scene-by-scene look into the filming of Tarkovsky's 'Nostalghia'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-05-05
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Sacrifices of Andrei Tarkovsky
Overview: Dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Andrei Tarkovsky. The film uses unique materials related to the years Tarkovsky spent in Italy, personal accounts of friends and professionals, the shooting locations of his films, to what degree his works reflects his personal life. The film brings us closer to the man to whom contemporary filmmaking owes so much.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2012-04-04
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I Am Twenty
Overview: Having returned from the army, 20-year-old Sergei settles down at the thermal power station and merges into ordinary life. Every day he meets and spends time with childhood friends — the young family man Slava and the merry fellow Nikolai, and once at first sight he falls in love with a stranger on the bus. A lyrical story about a generation of young people entering adulthood, a reappraisal of values, life principles, traditions in culture and art.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1965-01-18
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The Three Andreis
Overview: A documentary about the making of Andrei Tarkovsky's ANDREI RUBLEV, and Andrei Konchalovsky's THE STORY OF ASYA KLYACHINA.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1966-12-31
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Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky
Overview: In honor of the twentieth anniversary of Andrei Tarkovsky's death, student filmmaker Dmitry Tarkovsky sets out in search of his favorite director's legacy. His journey leads him to fifteen moving interviews in California, Italy, Sweden, and finally, Russia as he attempts to come closer to the meaning of one of Tarkovsky's most enigmatic beliefs... that death doesn't exist.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-17
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There Will Be No Leave Today
Overview: Soldiers undertake the perilous task of removing a stockpile of World War II bombshells discovered during roadworks under the ground of a small village.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-05-09
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Building Images: Anna Asp on Scenography
Overview: Documentary on production designer Anna Asp's work with director Andrey Tarkovsky, during the shooting of his film Offret (The Sacrifice).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1990-09-09
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Cinema Is a Mosaic Made of Time
Overview: Great encounter in Rome with filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky where he develops some of his major ideas on artistic creation and in particular the importance of the temporal dimension in his conception of cinema. Tarkovsky also comments on excerpts from film directors that inspired him like Kurosawa, Buñuel and Antonioni. The "prologue" at the beginning is a quote from Tarkovsky's film Andrei Rublev.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer
Overview: An account of the life and work of Russian filmmaker Andrey Tarkovsky (1932-86) in his own words: his memories, his vision of art and his reflections on the fate of the artist and the meaning of human existence; through extremely rare audio recordings that allow a complete understanding of his inner life and the mysterious world existing behind his complex cinematic imagery.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2019-10-17
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Alone
Overview: A short tale about nature and isolation. Narrated by Andrei Tarkovsky. Shot on 16mm Fomapan R in spring 2020.
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Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2020-05-20
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Andrei Tarkovsky: Poetry and Truth
Overview: Film essay on the mystical dimension of Tarkovsky's cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Sergey Lazo
Overview: A historical drama about the Communist leader Sergey Lazo.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1968-02-26
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Tarkovsky: Time Within Time
Overview: Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) is widely regarded as one of the worlds' top directors- throughout history. TWT explores Tarkovsky through his diary and his articulate assessments on love, art, and the struggles working within the Soviet political system. Of his 7 ambitious films, 5 were made under the heavy hand of censors in the Soviet Union. In 1984 he defected to Italy with help from screenwriter Tonino Guerra, and Director Michelangelo Antonioni. He directed 2 films in the West until his untimely death in Paris at age 54. Narrated by Oleg Vidov, combined with a collection of rare film excerpts and photos, and interviews from people who knew him best, we take you on a passionate journey into the life, love, and work of Andrei Tarkovsky.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-26
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Islands: Georgy Rerberg
Overview: A short documentary about the life and career of cinematographer Georgy Rerberg.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Death
Overview: A voice recycles paintings, films, quotes and archives and guides the viewer into a reflection about the cultural and artistic crises in the world.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-11-23
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