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Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

7 Episodes

In a string of visionary films that challenged the audience’s perceptions of time and space, Russian master Andrei Tarkovsky created a cinematic language all his own, one in which weighty philosophical themes found expression in images of haunting, spectral beauty. Ranging from the transcendent medieval drama ANDREI RUBLEV to meditative sci-fi epics like SOLARIS and STALKER, his enormously influential masterpieces are consistent in their astonishing ambition and profound insights into spirituality and metaphysical experience.

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Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

7 Episodes

  • Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky Teaser
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    Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky Teaser
    Episode 1

    Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky Teaser

    Episode 1

  • The Steamroller and the Violin
    45:45
    The Steamroller and the Violin
    Episode 2

    The Steamroller and the Violin

    Episode 2

    Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky • 1961 • Soviet Union

    When Sasha, a seven-year-old violin protégé, meets Sergei, a steamroller working in his neighborhood, he starts to open up from his strictly imposed routine of practice. Made as a thesis film for the VGIK Soviet film school, this early work by A...

  • Ivan’s Childhood
    1:35:13
    Ivan’s Childhood
    Episode 3

    Ivan’s Childhood

    Episode 3

    Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky • 1962 • Soviet Union
    Starring Nikolai Burlyaev, Valentin Zubkov, E. Zharikov

    The debut feature by the great Andrei Tarkovsky, IVAN’S CHILDHOOD is a poetic journey through the shards and shadows of one boy’s war-ravaged youth. Moving back and forth between the trauma...

  • Andrei Rublev
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    Andrei Rublev
    Episode 4

    Andrei Rublev

    Episode 4

    Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky • 1966 • Soviet Union
    Starring Anatoly Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko

    Tracing the life of a renowned icon painter, the second feature by Andrei Tarkovsky vividly conjures the murky world of medieval Russia. This dreamlike and remarkably tactile film follow...

  • Solaris
    2:47:06
    Solaris
    Episode 5

    Solaris

    Episode 5

    Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky • 1972 • Soviet Union
    Starring Natalya Bondarchuk, Donatas Banionis, Yuri Yarvet

    Ground control has been receiving mysterious transmissions from the three remaining residents of the Solaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is dispatched to i...

  • Mirror
    1:46:59
    Mirror
    Episode 6

    Mirror

    Episode 6

    Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky • 1974 • Soviet Union
    Starring Margarita Terekhova, Filipp Yankovskiy, Ignat Daniltsev

    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 compos...

  • Stalker
    2:41:51
    Stalker
    Episode 7

    Stalker

    Episode 7

    Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky • 1979 • Soviet Union
    Starring Alisa Freindlikh, Aleksandr Kaidnovsky, Anatoly Solonitsyn

    Andrei Tarkovsky’s final Soviet feature is a metaphys­ical journey through an enigmatic postapocalyptic landscape, and a rarefied cinematic experience like no other. A hired gui...

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