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Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Russian origin. He is widely considered one of the greatest directors in cinema history. His films explore spiritual and metaphysical themes and are known for their slow pacing and long takes, dreamlike visual imagery and preoccupation with nature and memory.
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entertainment · Soviet filmmaker (1932–1986) · film director · actor · film editor · screenwriter · biographer · film actor · theatre director · director · film screenwriter · also Andrei Tarkovsky, Andrej Tarkovskij, Andrei Tarkovski, Andrej Tarkovszkij, And. Arsenʹevich Tarkovskiĭ, Andrey Arsenyevich Tarkovsky
Born 4 April 1932 · Died 29 December 1986 · Q853
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2026· 2 entries
Yahoo: Andrei Tarkovsky's 'Stalker' Named the Greatest Sci-Fi Film Adapted from a Book
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2020· 2 entries
The Film Stage: Andrei Tarkovsky’s Life Will Be the Subject of a New Limited Series by Kirill Serebrennikov
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The president of the festival was Russian director Sergei Bodrov
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2018· 1 entry
The Guardian: Elena Ferrante: ‘Solaris is not Tarkovsky’s best film, but it made the greatest impression on me’
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2016· 2 entries
The Guardian: Andrei Tarkovsky's Polaroid photographs to be auctioned
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The Guardian: Andrei Tarkovsky: it's time to immerse yourself in the work of a true auteur
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2015· 1 entry
IndieWire: Watch: Video Essay Details How Andrei Tarkovsky’s ‘Solaris’ Is A Response To Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’
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2014· 1 entry
The Film Stage: Andrei Tarkovsky Discusses the Enigma of Cinema In One-Hour BBC Special
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2010· 1 entry
Laweekly: Andrei Tarkovsky: LACMA pays homage to a titan of Russian cinema
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2002· 1 entry
Won Golden Eagle Awards (2002).
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1996· 1 entry
The Andrei Tarkovsky Museum opened in Yuryevets, his childhood town
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1994· 2 entries
Fragments of Concentrate were filmed and used in the documentary Andrei Tarkovsky's Taiga Summer by Marina Tarkovskaya and Aleksandr Gordon
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Was conceived by Tarkovsky's wife, Larisa, reads: To the man who saw the Angel
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1990· 3 entries
Awarded Lenin Prize (1990).
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One of the highest state honors in the Soviet Union
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Was posthumously awarded the Soviet Union's prestigious Lenin Prize
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1989· 1 entry
The Andrei Tarkovsky Memorial Prize was established, with its first recipient being the Russian animator Yuri Norstein
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1987· 1 entry
The BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Language Film of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts for The Sacrifice
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1986· 2 entries
Died 1986-12-29.
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Published Sculpting in Time, a book about cinema and art
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1985· 2 entries
During Tarkovsky’s work on film "The Sacrifice" in Sweden, he had a love affair with Norwegian Berit Hemmighütt, who on September 4, 1986 gave birth to their son Alexander, who bears the double surname Tarkovsky-Hemmighü
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In Sweden, with many of the crew being alumni from Ingmar Bergman's films, including cinematographer Sven Nykvist
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1984· 1 entry
During the time of his exile in the West, Tarkovsky revisited the screenplay and made a few changes
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1983· 2 entries
Awarded Cannes Best Director Award (1983).
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And it was presented at the Cannes Film Festival where it won the FIPRESCI prize and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
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1982· 1 entry
To start shooting Nostalghia, but Mosfilm then withdrew from the project, so he sought and received financial backing from the Italian RAI
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1980· 1 entry
For an extended trip, during which he and Guerra completed the script for the film Nostalghia
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1979· 2 entries
And won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Cannes Film Festival
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And made his final two films—Nostalghia (1983) and The Sacrifice (1986)—abroad
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1974· 1 entry
An acquaintance from Tallinnfilm approached Tarkovsky to write a screenplay on a German theme
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1972· 2 entries
Completed Solaris, an adaptation of the science fiction novel Solaris by Stanisław Lem
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Tarkovsky told film historian Leonid Kozlov his ten favorite films
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1971· 1 entry
And was in contact with them until his death in 1986
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1966· 3 entries
Solaris in 1972, Mirror in 1975 and Stalker in 1979
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In an interview conducted shortly after finishing Andrei Rublev, Tarkovsky dismissed color film as a "commercial gimmick" and cast doubt on the idea that contemporary films meaningfully use color
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Immediately released after completion due to problems with Soviet authorities
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1965· 1 entry
Directed the film Andrei Rublev about the life of Andrei Rublev, the fifteenth-century Russian icon painter
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1962· 2 entries
Won Golden Lion for Ivan's Childhood (1962).
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“All art, of course, is intellectual, but for me, all the arts, and cinema even more so, must above all be emotional and act upon the heart.”
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1960· 1 entry
And winning First Prize at the New York Student Film Festival in 1961
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1959· 1 entry
Wrote the script Antarctica – Distant Country, which was later published in the Moskovskij Komsomolets
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1956· 1 entry
Tarkovsky directed his first student short film, The Killers, from a short story of Ernest Hemingway
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1954· 1 entry
Tarkovsky applied at the State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) and was admitted to the film-directing program
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1943· 1 entry
Having been awarded the Order of the Red Star after being shot in one of his legs (which he would eventually need to have amputated due to gangrene)
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1939· 1 entry
Tarkovsky enrolled at the Moscow School No
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1937· 1 entry
Subsequently volunteering for the army in 1941
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1932· 1 entry
Born 1932-04-04.
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