Andrei Tarkovsky

  • Andrei Tarkovsky – Offret AKA The Sacrifice (1986) (HD)

    Andrei Tarkovsky1981-1990ArthouseDramaSweden
    Offret (1986) (HD)
    Offret (1986) (HD)

    News of nuclear war breaks during the festivities of drama critic Alexander’s birthday celebration. With the end of the world nigh, he turns to God and vows to renounce everything near and dear to him, if the war is averted. For Alexander, a philosopher troubled by man’s lack of spirituality, the prospect of certain extinction compels the ultimate sacrifice, and he enters into a Faustian bargain with God to save his loved ones from the fear which grips them.Read More »

  • Andrei Tarkovsky – Solaris [Potemkine Version] (1972) (HD)

    Andrei Tarkovsky1971-1980DramaSci-FiUSSR
    Solaris [Potemkine Version] (1972)
    Solaris [Potemkine Version] (1972)

    Ground control has been receiving mysterious transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is dispatched to investigate, he experiences the same strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his consciousness. With Solaris, the legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky created a brilliantly original science-fiction epic, adapted from the famous novel by Stanislas Lem. Much more than a sci-fi film, Solaris is a meditation that challenges our conceptions about love, truth, and humanity itself.Read More »

  • Marika Beiku & Aleksandr Gordon & Andrei Tarkovsky – Ubiytsy AKA The Killers (1956) (HD)

    Andrei Tarkovsky1951-1960Aleksandr GordonDramaMarika BeikuShort FilmUSSR
    Ubiytsy (1956) (HD)
    Ubiytsy (1956) (HD)

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    The Killers is a 1956 student film by the Soviet and Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky and his fellow students Marika Beiku and Aleksandr Gordon. The film is based on the short story “The Killers” by Ernest Hemingway, written in 1927. It was Tarkovsky’s first film, produced when he was a student at the State Institute of Cinematography.Read More »

  • Andrei Tarkovsky – Nostalghia AKA Nostalgia (1983) (HD)

    Andrei Tarkovsky1981-1990ArthouseDramaUSSR
    Nostalghia (1983) (HD)
    Nostalghia (1983) (HD)

    Exiled from the USSR, consummate film poet Tarkovsky poured his stirrings of homesickness into this spectrally beautiful, metaphysical exploration of spiritual isolation and Russian identity. While researching the turbulent life of a 17th-century composer in the perpetually mist-shrouded Tuscan countryside, a soul-sick Russian poet (Yankvosky) forms an unusual kinship with an apocalypse-obsessed local madman (Josephson). Tarkovsky evokes the textures of dreams and memories through ravishing monochrome and sepia-toned reveries and flashbacks, while conjuring the hushed and haunted tone of a trance in this late-career masterwork.Read More »

  • Andrei Tarkovsky – Zerkalo AKA Mirror (1975) (HD)

    1971-1980Andrei TarkovskyArthouseDramaUSSR
    Zerkalo (1975) (HD)
    Zerkalo (1975) (HD)

    A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.Read More »

  • Andrei Tarkovsky – Stalker [Lumière Publishing] (1979)

    Andrei Tarkovsky1971-1980DramaSci-FiUSSR
    Stalker [Lumière Publishing] (1979)
    Stalker [Lumière Publishing] (1979)

    A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.Read More »

  • Andrei Tarkovsky – Nostalghia AKA Nostalgia (1983)

    1981-1990Andrei TarkovskyArthouseDramaRussia

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    The opening scene is a single shot showing a family and their dog descending a hill, a large tree in the foreground, the distant countryside vanishing into the rolling fog. The camera pushes in imperceptibly, but continuously from the beginning. On the soundtrack, possibly diegetic, a sole woman sings. Meanwhile, the film credits scroll up over the scene. The family and dog, upon reaching the area in front of a hut, stop moving. Verdi’s Messa da Requiem fades in, overlapping for a brief moment with the woman singing. Once the foreground tree fully disappears, the scene freezes; the credits continue until the title appears, and the scene fades to black. The Requiem continues an audible transition to the second scene.Read More »

  • Andrei Tarkovsky & Tonino Guerra – Tempo di viaggio aka Voyage in Time aka Travelling Time (1983)

    1981-1990Andrei TarkovskyDocumentaryItaly

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    Just like the Russian poet of the film 1983 ‘Nosthalgia’, who, accompanied by his Italian guide and translator, traveled through Italy researching the life of an 18th century Russian composer, Andrey Tarkovskiy, accompanied by his Italian scriptwriter, Tonino Guerra, travels through Italy in order to find the locations for their common filmed effort. During this journey, Guerra constantly induces Tarkovskyi to reflect on his work and on his past as a filmmaker and a poet. The result will be ‘Nostalghia’, a masterpieceRead More »

  • Andrei Tarkovsky – Andrey Rublyov (1966) DVD

    Arthouse1961-1970Amos Vogel: Film as a Subversive ArtAndrei TarkovskyEpicUSSR

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    Presented as a tableaux of seven sections in black and white, with a final montage of Rublev’s painted icons in color, the film takes an unflinching gaze at medieval Russia during the first quarter of the 15th century, a period of Mongol-Tartar invasion and growing Christian influence.

    Commissioned to paint the interior of the Vladimir cathedral, Andrei Rublev (Anatoli Solonitsyn) leaves the Andronnikov monastery with an entourage of monks and assistants, witnessing in his travels the degradations befalling his fellow Russians, including pillage, oppression from tyrants and Mongols, torture, rape, and plague. Faced with the brutalities of the world outside the religious enclave, Rublev’s faith is shaken, prompting him to question the uses or even possibility of art in a degraded world. After Mongols sack the city of Vladimir, burning the very cathedral that he has been commissioned to paint, Rublev takes a vow of silence and withdraws completely, removing himself to the hermetic confines of the monastery.Read More »

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