Mirror (DVD, 2002)

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An autobiographical film based on the life of Andrei Tarkovsky. Also a look at Stalin's influence on the people of Russia. Russian dialogue.

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ProducerEric Weisberg
EAN5021866020303
eBay Product ID (ePID)3952926

Product Key Features

ActorAnatoly Solonitsyn, Ignat Daniltsev
Film/TV TitleMirror
DirectorAndrei Tarkovsky
LanguageRussian
Subtitle LanguageEnglish
Run Time102 Mins
Aspect Ratio4:3 Full Frame
Release Year2002
FormatDVD
FeaturesTrailers\Documentary - 1. MEMORY\2. Innokenty Solinitsyn & Innokenty Smoktunovsky\Interviews - 1. Eduard Artemyev - Composer\2. Aleksander Solinitsyn - Screenwriter\Stills Gallery, With Subtitles
GenreDrama, General

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Number of Discs1
CertificateU
Country/Region of ManufactureRussia
Production DesignerNikolai Dvigubsky
Additional InformationWith MIRROR, legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky crafts perhaps his most profound and compelling film. What started off for Tarkovsky as a planned series of interviews with his own mother evolved into a lyrical and complex circular meditation on love, loyalty, memory, and history. Time shifts and generations merge as a single extraordinary actress (Margarita Terekhova) plays the narrator's former wife as well as his mother. Tarkovsky's memories as well as those of his mother are intermingled as a dark, sumptuous, and dreamlike pre-World War II Russia is evoked, accompanied throughout by the voice of Tarkovsky's father reading his own elegiac poetry. The spectacle of nature and its ubiquitous and ever-shifting presence is captured by Tarkovsky's camera as if by magic--the family cabin nestled deep in the verdant woods, a barn on fire in the middle of a gentle rainstorm, a gigantic wind enveloping a man as he walks through a wheat field--all creating indelible images with deep if mysterious emotional resonance. As the timeline shifts between the narrator's generation and his mother's, newsreel footage of Russian wars, triumphs, and disasters are juxtaposed with imagined scenes from the past, present, and future, crafting a silently lucid cinematic panopticon of memory, history, and nature.
ReviewsLos Angeles Times - ...[A] radiant, sublime dream of a film....THE MIRROR can be regarded as the work of a man who has found his voice and learned to express himself in his own powerful way..., Sight and Sound - ...like Sokurov, Tarkovsky has an extraordinary ability to imbue landscape with a lyrical and evocative quality...
ScreenwriterAndrei Tarkovsky, Aleksandr Misharin
Costume DesignerNina Fomina, Lyudmila Feyginova
Sound sourceDolby Digital 5.1
Movie/TV TitleMirror
VoiceMargarita Terekhova
Director of PhotographyGeorgi Rerberg

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