The Mirror
Summary:
The award-winning director Andrei Tarkovsky, (one of his better known films is Andrei Rublev), the son of a famous Russian poet, was born in 1935 and grew up in and around Moscow during the Second World War. This non-linear autobiographical film is considered by many Russian-speakers to be his best film and is his most personal meditation on time, history and the Russian countrysid... Full Summary >>
Cast:
Margarita Terekhova - (Narrator's Mother/Narrator's Wife)
Anatoli Solonitsin - (Passerby)
Nikolai Grinko
Ignat Daniltsev
Filipp Yankovsky
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Review:
Andrei Tarkovsky's career, truncated by Soviet political meddling, and his life, cut short in 1986 by lung cancer, come together in his most personal film. An ailing middle-aged man (the unseen narrator) finds echoes of his present life -- marked by conflict with his wife and love for his only son, who has to choose which parent to live with -- ... Continue >>
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