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Mirror (Criterion Collection)

Mirror (Criterion Collection)

Mosfilm (1975)
Biography | Drama
Russia | Russian | Black & White | 01:47
Blu-ray
715515260619
| 1 disc

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.


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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

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Notes

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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