Close. A question on the ending of Tarkovsky's Stalker. The Cahiers du cinéma consistently ranked his films on their top ten annual lists . Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) firmly positioned himself as the finest Soviet director of the post-War period.
29. A question on the ending of Tarkovsky's Stalker.
Andrei Tarkovsky’s ‘Mirror’: A Movie That Feels More Like Real Life. It is preceded by Ivanovo detstvo (Ivan’s Childhood, 1962), Andrei Rublev (1966) and Solaris (1972); after it, will come Stalker (1979), Nostalghia (1983) and Offret (The Sacrifice, 1986). Zerkalo (Mirror), released in 1975, comes at the midway point in his career. Archived.
Tarkovsky's film was produced by the Swedish Film Institute, it was photographed by Sven Nykvist, Bergman's cinematographer, and it starred Erland Josephson, who has acted in many Bergman films. Mirror is the result of a decade of work, beginning in 1964 (when the filmmakers had only one feature to his name, 1962's Ivan's Childhood), when Tarkovsky came up with the idea of a film as the document of the memories and dreams of a man we'd never see. Posted by 6 years ago. I'm not 100% that this question belongs in this subreddit, however it seemed appropriate enough and doesnt seem to break any rules so I'm just going to ask. The old workman gave the younger workman the use of his shop: Andrei Tarkovsky came to Sweden to shoot a movie on the island of Faro, the same island where Ingmar Bergman lives and makes most of his films. But his influence extended well beyond the Soviet Union.
Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) directed seven feature films over a 24-year period.