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Andrei Tarkovsky

Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director (1932-1986) · France · Directors · Died at 54

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Soviet director whose seven films - slow, spiritual, built from long takes and light moving through water - are studied like scripture by people who think cinema can be more than entertainment.

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A life in dates

2002Golden Eagle AwardsAward1990Lenin PrizeAward1986Died29 December 1986“I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.”In their wordsSculpting in Time (1986)

“Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual, for the ideal: that longing which draws people to art.”In their wordsp. 38

“The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible.”In their wordsp. 39

“The meaning of religious truth is hope.”In their wordsp. 43

“It is obvious that art cannot teach anyone anything, since in four thousand years humanity has learnt nothing at all.”In their wordsp. 50

The SacrificeFilm, 1986Director, Writer1983Cannes Best Director AwardAward1980“An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false.”In their words7 July 1980Journal entry (7 July 1980); published in Time Within Time: The Diaries 1970-1986 (1989)

1979Look Out, Snakes!Film, Writer1974Sour GrapesFilm, Writer1969One Chance in One ThousandFilm, Writer1967Schwarzhuhnbraunhuhnschwarzhuhnweißhuhnrothuhnweiß oder put-puttFilm, sniper1965I Am TwentyFilm, guest at Anya's party1962Golden LionAward1961The Steamroller and the ViolinFilm, Director, Writer1956The KillersFilm, Director1932Born4 April 1932

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10 statements, newest first

  1. For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.

    1986, Sculpting in Time (1986), Own words

  2. I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.

    1986, Sculpting in Time (1986), Own words

  3. I find poetic links, the logic of poetry in cinema, extraordinarily pleasing.

    1986, Sculpting in Time (1986), Own words

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Filmography 40

DADaedalusSampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)2024
DEDeath2024
MCMorceaux de Cannes2021
APAndrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer2019
AGAndrei Tarkovsky: Hard to Be a God2019
STSacrifices of Andrei Tarkovsky2012
RSRerberg and Tarkovsky. The Reverse Side of 'Stalker'2009
MTMeeting Andrei Tarkovsky2008
IRIslands: Georgy Rerberg2007
OAOne Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich1999
ATAndrei Tarkovsky: Poetry and TruthHimself (archive footage)1999
ARAndrei Tarkovsky: The Reminiscence1996
VTVoyage in TimeDirector, Writer1990 · ★ 6.8
BSBuilding Images: Anna Asp on Scenography1990
DTDirected by Andrei Tarkovsky1988
TTThe Exile and Death of Andrei Tarkovsky1988
LILighting1988
MEMoscow Elegy1987
ISIslandsHimself (archive footage)1987
TSThe SacrificeDirector, Writer1986 · ★ 7.7
TBThe Road to Bresson1984
ACAndrei Tarkovsky: A Poet in the CinemaHimself1984
ANAndrey Tarkovsky in Nostalghia1984
CTCinema Is a Mosaic Made of TimeHimself1984
NONostalgiaDirector, Writer1983 · ★ 7.8
STStalkerDirector, Writer1979 · ★ 8.1
LSLook Out, Snakes!Writer1979
MIMirrorDirector, Writer1975 · ★ 7.9
SGSour GrapesWriter1974
SOSolarisDirector, Writer1972 · ★ 7.8
OTOne Chance in One ThousandWriter1969
SLSergey LazoWriter1968
SPSchwarzhuhnbraunhuhnschwarzhuhnweißhuhnrothuhnweiß oder put-puttsniper1967
ARAndrei RublevDirector, Writer1966 · ★ 7.9
TAThe Three Andreis1966
ITI Am Twentyguest at Anya's party1965 · ★ 7.3
ICIvan's ChildhoodDirector, Writer1962 · ★ 7.8
TVThe Steamroller and the ViolinDirector, Writer1961 · ★ 7.1
TTThere Will Be No Leave TodayDirector, Writer1959
TKThe KillersDirector1956 · ★ 6.1

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LCLegends of Cinema2016

Awards

Golden Eagle Awards2002
Lenin Prize1990
Cannes Best Director Award1983
Golden Lion1962
People's Artist of the RSFSR
Honored art worker of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix

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Andrei Tarkovsky studied under Mikhail Romm at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography and made his first five features in the Soviet Union between 1962 and 1979: Ivan's Childhood, Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Mirror, and Stalker. Years of friction with state film authorities led him to leave the country in 1979; he completed two final films abroad, Nostalghia in 1983 and The Sacrifice in 1986. That same year he published Sculpting in Time, a book on cinema and art, and died of cancer possibly linked to toxic conditions on the Stalker set. He won the Golden Lion at Venice for Ivan's Childhood, the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury at Cannes, and a posthumous Lenin Prize in 1990. Three of his films appeared in Sight & Sound's 2012 list of the greatest films ever made.

Country
France
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1932 to 1986 · aged 54

In common with Andrei

Ernest HemingwayAlso in The Killers (1956)Bulat OkudzhavaAlso in I Am Twenty (1965)Stanisław LemAlso in Solaris (1972)Nikolai BurlyayevAlso in Ivan's Childhood (1962)Klara RumyanovaAlso in Andrei Rublev (1966)Alisa FreindlichAlso in Stalker (1979)

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