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Tarkovsky
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky ( rus, Андрей Арсеньевич Тарковский, p=ɐnˈdrʲej ɐrˈsʲenʲjɪvʲɪtɕ tɐrˈkofskʲɪj; 4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) was a Russian filmmaker. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time, his films explore spiritual and metaphysical themes, and are noted for their slow pacing and long takes, dreamlike visual imagery, and preoccupation with nature and memory. Tarkovsky studied film at Moscow's VGIK under filmmaker Mikhail Romm, and subsequently directed his first five features in the Soviet Union: ''Ivan's Childhood'' (1962), ''Andrei Rublev'' (1966), ''Solaris'' (1972), ''Mirror'' (1975), and ''Stalker'' (1979). A number of his films from this period are ranked among the best films ever made. After years of creative conflict with state film authorities, Tarkovsky left the country in 1979 and made his final two films abroad; ''Nostalghia'' (1983) and '' The Sacrifice'' (1986) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrei Rublev (film)
''Andrei Rublev'' (russian: Андрей Рублёв, ''Andrey Rublyóv'') is a 1966 Soviet arthouse biographical historical drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and co-written with Andrei Konchalovsky. The film was re-edited from the 1966 film titled ''The Passion According to Andrei'' by Tarkovsky which was censored during the first decade of the Brezhnev era in the Soviet Union. The film is loosely based on the life of Andrei Rublev, the 15th-century Russian icon painter. The film features Anatoly Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Sergeyev, Nikolai Burlyayev and Tarkovsky's wife Irma Raush. Savva Yamshchikov, a famous Russian restorer and art historian, was a scientific consultant of the film. ''Andrei Rublev'' is set against the background of early- 15th-century Russia. Although the film is only loosely based on the life of Andrei Rublev, it seeks to depict a realistic portrait of medieval Russia. Tarkovsky sought to create a film that shows the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Solaris (1972 Film)
''Solaris'' (russian: link=no, Солярис, tr. ''Solyaris'') is a 1972 Soviet science fiction drama film based on Stanisław Lem's 1961 novel of the same title. The film was co-written and directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, and stars Donatas Banionis and Natalya Bondarchuk. The electronic music score was performed by Eduard Artemyev and features a composition by J.S. Bach as its main theme. The plot centers on a space station orbiting the fictional planet Solaris, where a scientific mission has stalled because the skeleton crew of three scientists have fallen into emotional crises. Psychologist Kris Kelvin (Banionis) travels to the station to evaluate the situation, only to encounter the same mysterious phenomena as the others. ''Solaris'' won the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Palme d'Or. It received critical acclaim, and is often cited as one of the greatest science fiction films in the history of cinema. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirror (1975 Film)
''Mirror'' (russian: Зеркало, Zerkalo, link=no) is a 1975 Russian drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. It is loosely autobiographical, unconventionally structured, and incorporates poems composed and read by the director's father, Arseny Tarkovsky. The film features Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev, Alla Demidova, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Tarkovsky's wife Larisa Tarkovskaya and his mother Maria Vishnyakova. Innokenty Smoktunovsky provides voiceover and Eduard Artemyev the incidental music and sound effects. ''Mirror'' is structured in the form of a nonlinear narrative, with its main concept dating back to 1964 and undergoing multiple scripted versions by Tarkovsky and Aleksandr Misharin. It unfolds around memories recalled by a dying poet of key moments in his life and in Soviet culture. The film combines contemporary scenes with childhood memories, dreams, and newsreel footage. Its cinematography slips between color, black-and-white, and sepia. The film's loose f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sacrifice (1986 Film)
''The Sacrifice'' ( sv, Offret) is a 1986 drama film written and directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. Starring Erland Josephson, the film was produced by the Swedish Film Institute. Many of the crew were alumni of Ingmar Bergman's films. ''The Sacrifice'' centers on a middle-aged intellectual who attempts to bargain with God to stop an impending nuclear holocaust. The film combines pagan and Christian religious themes; Tarkovsky called it a "parable". ''The Sacrifice'' was Tarkovsky's third film as a Soviet expatriate, after '' Nostalghia'' and the documentary '' Voyage in Time'', and he died shortly after its completion. He was diagnosed with cancer after making of the film, and by 1986 was unable to attend its presentation at the Cannes Film Festival due to his illness. Like 1972's '' Solaris'', it won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. Plot The film opens on the birthday of Alexander (Erland Josephson), an actor who gave up the stage to work as a journalist, critic and lec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nostalghia
''Nostalghia'' (UK: ''Nostalgia'') is a 1983 Soviet- Italian drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and starring Oleg Yankovsky, Domiziana Giordano, and Erland Josephson. Tarkovsky co-wrote the screenplay with Tonino Guerra. The film depicts a Russian writer (Oleg Yankovsky) who visits Italy to carry out research about an 18th-century Russian composer, but is stricken by homesickness. The film utilizes autobiographical elements drawn from Tarkovsky's own experiences visiting Italy, and explores themes surrounding the untranslatability of art and culture. The film won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, the prize for Best Director and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival. It received generally positive reviews from critics. The film received nine total votes in the 2012 ''Sight & Sound'' polls of the greatest films ever made. Plot The Russian writer Andrei Gorchakov travels to Italy to research the life of 18th-century Russian composer Pavel Sosnovsky, who lived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan's Childhood
''Ivan's Childhood'' (russian: Ива́ново де́тство, ''Ivanovo detstvo''), sometimes released as ''My Name Is Ivan'' in the US, is a 1962 Soviet war drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. Co-written by Mikhail Papava, Andrei Konchalovsky and an uncredited Tarkovsky, it is based on Vladimir Bogomolov's 1957 short story "Ivan". The film features child actor Nikolai Burlyayev along with Valentin Zubkov, Evgeny Zharikov, Stepan Krylov, Nikolai Grinko, and Tarkovsky's wife Irma Raush. ''Ivan's Childhood'' tells the story of orphaned boy Ivan, whose parents were killed by the invading German forces, and his experiences during World War II. ''Ivan's Childhood'' was one of several Soviet films of its period, such as ''The Cranes Are Flying'' and ''Ballad of a Soldier'', that looked at the human cost of war and did not glorify the war experience as did films produced before the Khrushchev Thaw. In a 1962 interview, Tarkovsky stated that in making the film he wanted ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arseny Tarkovsky
Arseny Aleksandrovich Tarkovsky (russian: link=no, Арсений Александрович Тарковский; 27 May 1989) was a Soviet and Russian poet and translator. He was predeceased by his son, film director Andrei Tarkovsky. Biography Family Tarkovsky was born on 25 June N.S. 1907 in Yelisavetgrad, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire (now Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine). His father, Aleksandr Tarkovsky (in pl, link=no, Aleksander Tarkowski), was a bank clerk, Russian revolutionary (Narodnik), and amateur actor of Polish origin and his mother was Maria Danilovna Rachkovskaya. Youth In 1921, Tarkovsky and his friends published a poem which contained an acrostic about Lenin. They were arrested, and sent to Nikolayev for execution. Tarkovsky was the only one that managed to escape. Career By 1924 Tarkovsky moved to Moscow, and from 1924 to 1925 he worked for a newspaper for railroad workers called ''Gudok'', where he managed an editorial section written in verse. In 1925� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sculpting In Time
''Sculpting in Time'' (Russian "Запечатлённое время", literally "Captured Time") is a book by Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky about art and cinema in general, and his own films in particular. It was originally published in 1985 in German shortly before the author's death, and published in English in 1987, translated by Kitty Hunter-Blair. The title refers to Tarkovsky's own name for his style of filmmaking. Synopsis The book's main statement about the nature of cinema is summarized in the statement, "The dominant, all-powerful factor of the film image is ''rhythm'', expressing the course of time within the frame." It contains a great deal of poetry written by the filmmaker's father Arseny Alexandrovich Tarkovsky along with a fair amount of Tarkovsky's personal writings on his life and work, lectures and discussions during making of ''Andrei Rublev'' with a film history student named Olga Surkova, who later became a professional critic and helped in writin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Larisa Tarkovskaya
Larisa Pavlovna Tarkovskaya (russian: Лариса Павловна Тарковская, née Yegorkina (Егоркина), from 1958, Kizilova (Кизилова); 1 February 1933 – 19 January 1998) was a Soviet film director and actress. She was the second wife of filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. She and Tarkovsky married in 1964 and had one child named Andrei. Life Larisa Pavlovna Yegorkina was born on 1 February 1933 in Moscow, Soviet Union to Pavel Vasilyevich Yegorkin, an engineer and Anna Semyonovna, a seamstress. Her parents, who were originally from the village of Avdotyinka, Shilovsky District, Ryazan Oblast, had settled in the capital in 1925. She married the engineer, Igor Kizilov, and in 1958 gave birth to their daughter Olga Kizilova. While filming ''Andrei Rublev'', Kizilova, who had been a production assistant for the film, and Tarkovsky met and they started a relationship. In 1965, Tarkovsky moved in with Kizilova despite still being married to his first wife, Ir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irma Raush
Irma Yakovlevna Raush (russian: Ирма Яковлевна Рауш; born 21 April 1938) is a Russian actress and the first wife of film director Andrei Tarkovsky. She is best known for her role as Durochka in ''Andrei Rublev (film), Andrei Rublev'' and as Ivan's mother in ''Ivan's Childhood''. Biography Irma Raush was born in Saratov on 21 April 1938 into a Volga German family. In 1954, she began to study at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) under Mikhail Romm. She was one of two women in the fifteen strong class of students who wanted to be film directors. Andrei Tarkovsky was also in the same class and she became his supporter and she married him in April 1957. On 30 September 1962, their son Arseny Tarkovsky was born. They divorced in June 1970. Tarkovsky remarried. Irma Raush played several roles in Tarkovsky's early films. She played Ivan's mother in ''Ivan's Childhood'' in 1962 and Durochka in ''Andrei Rublev (film), Andre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival)
The Grand Prix is an award of the Cannes Film Festival bestowed by the jury of the festival on one of the competing feature films. It is the second-most prestigious prize of the festival after the Palme d'Or, and it replaced the Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival), Special Jury Prize, which was considered a "second place" award until after this award was introduced. History The award was first presented in 1967. The prize was not awarded in 1977. The festival was not held at all in 2020. In 1968, no awards were given as the festival was called off mid-way due to the May 68, May 1968 events in France. Also, the jury vote was tied, and the prize was shared by two films on 10 occasions (1967, 1971, 1976, 1978, 1989, 1990, 1994, 2011, and 2021–22). Andrei Tarkovsky, Bruno Dumont, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, and Matteo Garrone have won the most awards in this category, each winning twice. Three directing teams have shared the award: Paolo and Vittorio Taviani for ''The Night of the Shooting Star ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
