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Andrey · Tarkovsky, the soviet-level cinematic poet, the greatest saint of light and shadow, and the master of long lenses guiding the soul. As one of the most famous film directors of the former Soviet Period, Andrey Tarkovsky has a very high international status and influence in the history of cinema. Together with Sweden's Bergmann and Italy's Fellini, it is called the "Holy Trinity".
Tarkovsky was born on April 4, 1932 in the Russian town of Ivanovoza Flosse, the son of a poet and translator, and the mother of a proofreader in a printing house. After his parents separated, he and his sister continued to live with their mother. In 1960, after graduating from the Soviet Film Academy, Tarkovsky began his illustrious film career.
Due to censorship and injustice in his films at home, Tarkovsky went into exile in the 1970s. On December 28, 1986, André Tarkovsky died of lung cancer in Paris at the age of 54. Tarkovsky, who died young, made only seven and a half films in his lifetime, but they are classics.
Tarkovsky's dedication to faith is the purest in the European film world. His work doesn't even have the desires and fellini ironies described by Bergman. Tarkovsky's world is single, pure, and also very serious and heavy. Like an apostle, we know that we are not worthy of His mercy, and therefore we respect, love, and cherish Him even more.
Tarkovsky said, "Anyone who wants to be a director has to put a lifetime of time as a stake. ”
A must-see book for almost all filmmakers is Tarkovsky's "Carving Time". This book full of philosophical ideas has also become a spiritual beacon for many people. So much so that "carving time" later became synonymous with movies.
This issue will bring you all 7 of Tarkovsky's official feature films and a student work, as well as a blockbuster documentary, Tarkovsky: Praying in Cinema. Let's feel the unique light and shadow charm of this film master!
Andrey Tarkovsky
(1932-04-04 to 1986-12-28)
Award-winning biography
1. "Mr. and Mrs. Smith"
In 1962, his debut film Ivan's Childhood won the 23rd Venice Golden Lion Award.
In 1966, Andrei Rublev won the Fabisi Prize at the 22nd Cannes Film Festival.
In 1972, "Flying into Space" won the 25th Cannes International Jury Prize.
In 1979, Stalker won the 33rd Cannes Catholic Humanitarian Award.
In 1983, "Nostalgia" won the Best Director Award at the 36th Cannes Film Festival.
In 1986, "Sacrifice" won the Grand Jury Prize at the 39th Cannes Film Festival.
1. The Road Roller and Violin, 1961
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Writers: Andrei Tarkovsky
Starring: Igor Furmchenko / Vladimir Zamansky
Douban 8.6 IMDb 7.4
The protagonist is a young road builder who drives a huge road roller all day. There are often curious children who watch him work with envious eyes. Six-year-old boy Sasha lives with his stern mother, and his violin teacher is a more strict woman. Sasha, who has been learning violin since the age of five, spends a lot of time practicing every day, and he and his children seem to live in two worlds. Sasha was bitter and tried to avoid the children's ridicule.
He and the road builder became friends for many years, because he cared about little Sasha everywhere and promised to take him to see the movie "Xia Boyang". The result is that the child is locked up at home by the mother and is unable to go to the movies together on time. This film is Tarkovsky's graduation work at the VGIK Film Academy in Moscow, but it has become quite a master, and the traces of mature creation and lens language are still faintly visible.
2. Ivan's Childhood, 1962
Writers: Andrey Konchalovsky
Starring: Nikolai Burryaev / Valentin Zubkov
Douban 8.7 IMDb 8.1
In 1962, at the age of thirty, Tarkovsky, holding the Golden Lion Trophy, stood on the podium of the Venice Film Festival. This masterpiece in the strict sense of the word shocked the world as soon as it came out. Ivan's Childhood creates a perfect eternity in the darkness. As Sartre praised, a great contemporary film formalist has arrived.
Adapted from the novel Ivan by the Russian writer Bogomolov, the film unfolds a tragic narrative based on Captain Khaltsev's first-person memories. The little protagonist ivan in the movie adheres to the charm of the original, his face is dark, thin and thin, and he always stands resolutely in the cold wind with his eyes firm, and his teeth clatter due to trembling. The Ivan we see is not a common image of a small warrior, but more like a beast that has lost the support of his relatives due to war, learning to fight alone in grief and saying goodbye to childhood alone.
3. Andrei Rublev (1966)
Writers: Andrey Koncharovsky / Andrey Tarkovsky
Starring: Anatoly Solonitschen / Ivan Lapiv
Douban 9.0 IMDb 8.1
The film is a masterpiece of the world's epic directed by Tarkovsky, one of his most classic and difficult to understand works, using the unique poetic film language of the Tower style and the heavy brush like historical murals, presenting the life of the famous Russian icon painter Andrei Rublev in the 15th century. The film borrows the painter's life years to unfold a complex historical picture.
The film has caused a lively response in many European countries, and the Cannes Film Festival has even broken the norm by awarding the film screened out of the conference with the Federation of Film Critics Award. Domestically, however, Andrei Rublev was shelved by the authorities and was not released until five years later, in 1971.
4. Flying into Space (1972)
Starring: Natalia Bondalchuk
Douban 8.6 IMDb 8.1
Adapted from the novel of the same name by Polish science fiction writer Lem, it tells the strange experience of several astronauts on the star "Solaris", which looks like an ocean is actually the "brain" of the planet, a huge mirror reflecting the human self... The film combines science fiction and philosophy, and kubrick's "A Space Odyssey: 2000" is called two landmark science fiction classics.
The film was remade and paid tribute to by the famous American director Soderbergh in 2002. Flying into Space, also known as Solaris, won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.
5. The Mirror, 1975
Writers: Alexander Michalin / Andrei Tarkovsky
Starring: Margaret Terekhova
If "Sacrifice" is the epitome of LaoTa's thought, then "Mirror" is the culmination of its aesthetic and cinematic style. The film is one of the powerful evidences of the fusion of expressionism and realism. A highly authorised poetic film, from form to content, is full of the director's personal intentions, and its greatest significance lies in creating a pure film art with a poetic atmosphere as its essence, completely different from other art forms.
Tarkovsky's father, Arsenyi Tarkovsky, was a famous poet of the former Soviet Union, and his poems often appeared in the films of his son Andrei, especially in the mirror: "Through the prison fence it hears: the jubilation of the woods and meadows, the noise of the sea... I dream of another man's soul, dressed in a different robe, skimming over doubt to hope, like alcohol, burning without shadow..." Thus, the lonely back of the mother sitting on the fence has made the most famous still of "Mirror".
6. Stalker, 1979
Starring: Alexander Kaidanovsky
Douban 8.8 IMDb 8.2
This highly epic film, a science fiction film that explores the essence of the human soul, "Stalker", uses poetic and highly metaphorical long shots to excavate the contradictions and deep meanings of the human subconscious and the external world. In 1957, a nuclear disaster called the Mayaka Factory near Chelyabinsk in the Soviet Union deeply touched Tarkovsky and became the creative material for this film.
In 1979, Tarkovsky traveled to Estonia to shoot the film, which was modeled on the classic short story of the Strugatsky brothers, "Roadside Picnic". Despite being far from the Soviet homeland, Tarkovsky's fluid space-time and spiritual core in tarkovsky's lens are still the original Soviet temperament; and what is even more impressive is his seamless transformation of the subconscious and the external world, as in the line of the film: "The past and the future are only the continuation of the present, and all changes are only flickering in the horizontal line." The film won the Catholic Humanitarian Award at the 33rd Cannes Film Festival in 1980.
7. "Nostalgia" (1983)
Writers: Andrei Tarkovsky / Tonino Guerra
Starring: Oleg Jankovsky / Erlan Josephson
Douban 9.1 IMDb 8.1
During the years of exile in Italy, Tarkovsky made the greatest nostalgic film in film history. "Nostalgia" was filmed in 1983, the same year Tarkovsky won the Best Director Award at the 36th Cannes International Film Festival along with Bresson, the most revered director of his life. The Soviet-Italian co-production was written by Tarkovsky in collaboration with the poet Tonino Gouela. But the film's theme is the classic Russian dilemma: artists who leave their homeland, tormented by homesickness, can neither return nor leave — the fate that Tarkovsky encountered in the last years of his life. ”
"Nostalgia" contributes us one of the greatest long shots in film history. For a long 8 minutes and 45 seconds, Gorchakov waded into the pool of St. Catherine with a burning candle, the church swaying silently, there was no cuckoo song, and the water was quiet. Tarkovsky so quietly and completely presents this pilgrimage-like ceremony — solemn and mysterious, with a poetic beauty.
8. "Sacrifice" (1986)
Starring: Erlan Josephson / Susan Fleetwood
Douban 8.8 IMDb 8.1
In 1986, Tarkovsky was still wandering in distant Italy, completing his last film, Sacrifice. The film continues the spiritual lifeblood of "Nostalgia" in thematically, but it is obviously more thorough. The main story of the film is that the protagonist Alexander, in order to redeem mankind, is willing to bear the consequences of losing his family and being regarded as moral degradation by those around him, resolutely and resolutely abandons everything in his past life and embarks on a long and endless road of sacrifice. Is this also a parable for Tarkovsky's steadfast and deep path of sacrifice for himself?
In "Sacrifice," the long shot of Alexander and his young son planting trees on the shore lasts nearly ten minutes, and the father plants the unspeakable belief in God into the child's heart. Tarkovsky tried with the last of his strength to return home, even if he was regarded as a madman by the world.
9. Tarkovsky: Praying in The Movies 2019
Directed by: Andrej Andrejevich Tarkovskij Jr.
Writers: Andrej Andrejevich Tarkovskij Jr.
Starring: Andrei Tarkovsky
Douban 8.6 IMDb 7.5
Written and directed by Tarkovsky's son, the documentary is narrated by tarkovsky's father, Tarkovsky, and echoes with the poems of the poet's grandfather Arseny, telling the philosophy and belief of the film poet in the face of art and life. More rarely, Tarkovsky's interpretation of some of his works is revealed, leaving a commentary on his dreamlike world of images.
Taking the creation process of seven feature films and one short film as the scripture, and the contemplation and pursuit of film art as the weft, the eight chapters string together Tarkovsky's artistic creation and growth experience, and between the birth and death of personal life, the poetry and spirituality flow under the lens are like prayers, faith is firm and eternal. In addition to the interrogation of the truth of life and the meaning of creation, it also witnesses the artist's unrequited love for his hometown.
"I look forward to giving the audience a glimpse into the source of his creation and sharing how I felt when I interacted with him." He was a great artist, a great man, and a mentor in my life. He's my father. —Andrey Ann Tarkovsky
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