A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
Margarita Terekhova | Natalya | |
Oleg Yankovskiy | The Father | |
Filipp Yankovskiy | Aleksei - Five Years Old | |
Ignat Daniltsev | Ignat | |
Nikolay Grinko | Printery Director | |
Alla Demidova | Lisa | |
Yuriy Nazarov | Military trainer | |
Anatoliy Solonitsyn | Forensic doctor | |
Larisa Tarkovskaya | Nadezha - Mother of twelve-year-old Alexei | |
Tamara Ogorodnikova | Nanny | |
Yuri Sventisov | Yuri Zhary | |
Tamara Reshetnikova | ||
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy | Aleksei | |
Arseniy Tarkovskiy | Father | |
E. Del Bosque | A Spaniard | |
Ángel Gutiérrez | A Spaniard | |
Tatiana Del Bosque | A Spaniard | |
Teresa Del Bosque | A Spaniard | |
L. Correcer | A Spaniard | |
Diego García | A Spaniard | |
Teresa Rames | A Spaniard | |
Olga Kizilova | Red-head | |
Aleksandr Misharin | Bearded Doctor | |
Maria Ivanovna Vishnyakova | Elderly Maria |
Director | Andrei Tarkovsky | |
Writer | Aleksandr Misharin, Arseniy Tarkovskiy, Andrei Tarkovsky | |
Producer | Erik Waisberg | |
Musician | Eduard Artemev | |
Photography | Georgi Rerberg |
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Added Date | Jul 15, 2021 18:08:10 |
Modified Date | Jun 12, 2022 00:35:15 |
A subtly ravishing passage through the halls of time and memory, this sublime reflection on twentieth-century Russian history by Andrei Tarkovsky (Stalker) is as much a poem composed in images, or a hypnagogic hallucination, as it is a work of cinema. In a richly textured collage of varying film stocks and newsreel footage, the recollections of a dying poet flash before our eyes, his dreams mingling with scenes of childhood, wartime, and marriage, all imbued with the mystical power of a trance. Largely dismissed by Soviet critics on its release because of its elusive narrative structure, Mirror has since taken its place as one of the director’s most renowned and influential works, a stunning personal statement from an artist transmitting his innermost thoughts and feelings directly from psyche to screen.
SPECIAL FEATURES
New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer, a 2019 documentary about the director by his son Andrei A. Tarkovsky
The Dream in the Mirror, a new documentary by Louise Milne and Seán Martin
New interview with composer Eduard Artemyev
Islands: Georgy Rerberg, a 2007 documentary about the cinematographer
Archival interviews with Tarkovsky and screenwriter Alexander Misharin
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by critic Carmen Gray and, for the Blu-ray, the 1968 film proposal and literary script by Tarkovsky and Misharin that they ultimately developed into Mirror
New cover design by Nessim Higson
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