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 | Maroussia |
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Oleg Yankovskiy | The Father |
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Filipp Yankovskiy | Five Years Old Aleksei |
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Ignat Daniltsev | Ignat |
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Nikolay Grinko | Printery Director |
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Alla Demidova | Lisa |
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Yuriy Nazarov | Military Trainer |
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Anatoliy Solonitsyn | Forensic Doctor |
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Larisa Tarkovskaya | Nadezha |
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Tamara Ogorodnikova | Nanny |
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Yuri Sventisov | Yuri Zhary |
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Tamara Reshetnikova | |
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Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy | Aleksei |
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Arseniy Tarkovskiy | Father |
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E. Del Bosque | A Spaniard |
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Ángel Gutiérrez | A Spaniard |
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Tatiana Del Bosque | A Spaniard |
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Teresa Del Bosque | A Spaniard |
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L. Correcer | A Spaniard |
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Diego García | A Spaniard |
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Teresa Rames | A Spaniard |
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Olga Kizilova | Redhead |
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Aleksandr Misharin | Bearded Doctor |
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Maria Ivanovna Vishnyakova | Elderly Maria |
| Director | Andrei Tarkovsky |
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| Writer | Aleksandr Misharin, Andrei Tarkovsky, Arseniy Tarkovskiy | |
| Producer | Erik Waisberg | |
| Musician | Eduard Artemev | |
| Photography | Georgi Rerberg | |
| Nr Discs | 1 |
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| Index | 2431 |
| Added Date | Jul 15, 2021 18:08:10 |
| Modified Date | Jun 12, 2022 00:35:15 |
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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