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 The most famous Soviet film-maker since Sergei Eisenstein, Andrei Tarkovsky (the son of noted poet Arseniy Tarkovsky) studied music and Arabic in Moscow before enrolling in the Soviet film school VGIK. He shot to international attention with his first feature, Ivan's Childhood (1962), which won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. This resulted in high expectations for his second feature Andrei Rublev (1966), which was banned by the Soviet authorities for two years. It was shown at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival at four o'clock in the morning on the last day, in order to prevent it from winning a prize - but it won one nonetheless, and was eventually distributed abroad partly to enable the authorities to save face. Solaris (1972), had an easier ride, being acclaimed by many in Europe and North America as the Soviet answer to Kubrick's '2001' (though Tarkovsky himself was never too fond of his own film nor Kubrick's), but he ran into official trouble again with Mirror (1975), a dense, personal web of autobiographical memories with a radically innovative plot structure. Stalker (1979) had to be completely reshot on a dramatically reduced budget after an accident in the laboratory destroyed the first version, and after Nostalghia (1983), shot in Italy (with official approval), Tarkovsky defected to Europe. His last film, The Sacrifice (1986) was shot in Sweden with many of Ingmar Bergman's regular collaborators, and won an almost unprecedented four prizes at the Cannes Film Festival. He died of lung cancer at the end of the year. Two years later link=Sergei Parajanov dedicated his film Ashik Kerib to Tarkovsky.
Bio:
The most famous Soviet film-maker since Sergei Eisenstein, Andrei Tarkovsky (the son of noted poet Arseniy Tarkovsky) studied music and Arabic in Moscow before enrolling in the Soviet film school VGIK. He shot to international attention with his first feature, Ivan's Childhood (1962), which won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. This resulted in high expectations for his second feature Andrei Rublev (1966), which was banned by the Soviet authorities for two years. It was shown at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival at four o'clock in the morning on the last day, in order to prevent it from winning a prize - but it won one nonetheless, and was eventually distributed abroad partly to enable the authorities to save face. Solaris (1972), had an easier ride, being acclaimed by many in Europe and North America as the Soviet answer to Kubrick's '2001' (though Tarkovsky himself was never too fond of his own film nor Kubrick's), but he ran into official trouble again with Mirror (1975), a dense, personal web of autobiographical memories with a radically innovative plot structure. Stalker (1979) had to be completely reshot on a dramatically reduced budget after an accident in the laboratory destroyed the first version, and after Nostalghia (1983), shot in Italy (with official approval), Tarkovsky defected to Europe. His last film, The Sacrifice (1986) was shot in Sweden with many of Ingmar Bergman's regular collaborators, and won an almost unprecedented four prizes at the Cannes Film Festival. He died of lung cancer at the end of the year. Two years later link=Sergei Parajanov dedicated his film Ashik Kerib to Tarkovsky.
Tivia:
He said that children understood his films better than adults.He was an admirer of the films of Akira Kurosawa and Ingmar Bergman. Both older filmmakers later praised Tarkovsky's own films.In Tarkovsky's last diary entry (15 December 1986), he wrote: 'But now I have no strength left - that is the problem'.Ingmar Bergman hailed him as "the most important director of all time".Wrote the Book 'Sculpting in Time'. In it he explains and discusses his views on cinema, cinema as an art, his own films and the use of poetry in his films.Tarkovsky, his wife and his long time collaborator Anatoli Solonitsyn all died from the very same type of lung cancer.In almost every movie he made, there is a shot or a sound of water dripping.His ten favorite films are; Journal d'un cur�� de campagne (1951), Mouchette (1967), Nattvardsg?sterna (1962), Smultronst?llet (1957), Persona (1966), Nazar��n (1959), City Lights (1931), Ugetsu Monogatari (1953), Shichinin no Samurai (1954) and Suna no Onna (1964).There is a controversy about whether he was assassinated by the KGB.The inscription on his gravestone reads; 'To the man who saw the Angel'.Although it was his most widely seen film outside of the Soviet Union, he reportedly regarded Solaris (1972) as his least favorite of the films he directed.Andrei Tarkovsky made 32 versions of Mirror (1975) before he approved the final (33rd) cut.Studied Arabic at the Oriental Institute in Moscow but he dropped out.At the Cannes film festival, he won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury three times (more than any other director) with Offret (1986), Nostalghia (1983) and Stalker (1979).His favorite filmmakers were Akira Kurosawa, Luis Bu?uel, Ingmar Bergman, Robert Bresson, Kenji Mizoguchi, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean Vigo, and Carl Theodor Dreyer.According to Ingmar Bergman, Tarkovsky "is the greatest, the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream".Although strongly opposed to commercial cinema, in a famous exception Tarkovsky praised the blockbuster film The Terminator (1984), saying its "vision of the future and the relation between man and its destiny is pushing the frontier of cinema as an art".A minor planet, 3345 Tarkovskij, discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina in 1982, has been named after him.Tarkovsky's father Arseniy Tarkovskiy was a noted Russian poet, whose poetry Tarkovsky used in Stalker (1979) recited by the main character, and Mirror (1975) recited by Arseniy himself.Was also a film theorist, theatre and opera director.In their obituaries, the film committee of the Council of Ministers of the USSR and the Union of Soviet Film Makers expressed their sorrow that Tarkovsky had to spend the last years of his life in exile.Friend of Sergei Parajanov, who was best friends with Mikhail Vartanov. All were graduates of the legendary Russian film school VGIK and met many times; the latter's Russian Academy Award-winning Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992) features a poetic chapter on the the friendship of Parajanov and Tarkovsky.Under the influence of Glasnost and Perestroika, Tarkovsky was finally recognized in the Soviet Union in the Autumn of 1986, shortly before his death, by a retrospective of his films in Moscow.Buried in Orthodox Graveyard for Russian Emigr��s in Sainte-Genevi��ve-des-Bois, France.Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1982.Sergei Parajanov dedicated "Ashik Kerib" to Tarkovskiy.In his school years, he was a troublemaker and a poor student.One of his teachers at VGIK was Mikhail Romm."Dear Andrei Retrospective" held at the 2007 Navarra International Documentary Film Festival with Marina Tarkovsky and Alexander Gordon in attendance.Worked as a prospector for the Academy of Science Institute for Non-Ferrous Metals and Gold in the USSR. He also participated in a year-long research expedition to the river Kureikye near Turukhansk in the Krasnoyarsk Province. During this time in the taiga, Tarkovsky decided to study film.Profiled in "Films and Dreams: Tarkovsky, Bergman, Sokurov, Kubrick and Wong Kar-Wei" by Thurston Botz-Borsnstein. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2008.Tarkovskiy was born in Zavrazhye village, Yuryevets area, Ivanovo Region, Russian SFSR, USSR. That place goes now by the address of Zavrazhye, Kadyy area, Kostroma Region, Russian Federation.Was posthumously awarded the Lenin Prize in 1990, one of the highest state honors in the Soviet Union.Mikhail Romm, a Soviet film director, was his teacher and mentor.In Tarkovsky's last days, photographs of his three-month-old son Sasha were brought to the hospital, but he never saw the baby in person, as Sasha's mother Inger Pehrsson didn't visit him.At the State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), he was in the same class as Irma Raush whom he married in April 1957.Husband of actress, director, and children's author Irina Tarkovskaya [Irma Raush] (1st wife). Father of Arseniy Tarkovsky Jr [Senka] (born 30 Sep 1962) (with wife Irina) (son).Father of Aleksandr Tarkovsky [Sasha] (born Sep 1986) (son). The mother is Norwegian costume designer Inger Pehrsson.Son of poet and translator Arseniy Tarkovskiy (father) and Maria Ivanova Vishnyakova (born 1907) (mother).2nd Husband of Larisa Tarkovskaya [Larisa Kizilova (n��e Egorkina)] (2nd wife). Father of Andrey A. Tarkovskiy [Andriosha; Andrei Tarkovsky Jr] (with wife Larisa) (son). Stepfather of Olga Kizilova (daughter of wife Larisa from her previous marriage) (stepdaughter).Brother of writer and linguist Marina Tarkovskaya (sister). Brother-in-law of film school classmate director and author Aleksandr Gordon (husband of sister Marina). Uncle of writer, poet, biologist, trapper, and cinematographer Mikhail Tarkovsky (nephew), and child actress Ekaterina Tarkovskaya [Katya] (niece); the children of Marina and Gordon. |
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Andrei Tarkovsky |
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Additional Crew,Writer,Director (IMDB) |
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All World |
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| Height: |
5' 7?' (1.71 m) |
| Biography: |
The most famous Soviet film-maker since Sergei Eisenstein, Andrei Tarkovsky (the son of noted poet Arseniy Tarkovsky) studied music and Arabic in Moscow before enrolling in the Soviet film school VGIK. He shot to international attention with his firs |
| Trivia: |
He said that children understood his films better than adults.He was an admirer of the films of Akira Kurosawa and Ingmar Bergman. Both older filmmakers later praised Tarkovsky's own films.In Tarkovsky's last diary entry (15 December 1986), he wrote: 'But now I have no strength left - that is the problem'.Ingmar Bergman hailed him as "the most important director of all time".Wrote the Book 'Sculpting in Time'. In it he explains and discusses his views on cinema, cinema as an art, his own films and the use of poetry in his films.Tarkovsky, his wife and his long time collaborator Anatoli Solonitsyn all died from the very same type of lung cancer.In almost every movie he made, there is a shot or a sound of water dripping.His ten favorite films are; Journal d'un cur�� de campagne (1951), Mouchette (1967), Nattvardsg?sterna (1962), Smultronst?llet (1957), Persona (1966), Nazar��n (1959), City Lights (1931), Ugetsu Monogatari (1953), Shichinin no Samurai (1954) and Suna no Onna (1964).There is a controversy about whether he was assassinated by the KGB.The inscription on his gravestone reads; 'To the man who saw the Angel'.Although it was his most widely seen film outside of the Soviet Union, he reportedly regarded Solaris (1972) as his least favorite of the films he directed.Andrei Tarkovsky made 32 versions of Mirror (1975) before he approved the final (33rd) cut.Studied Arabic at the Oriental Institute in Moscow but he dropped out.At the Cannes film festival, he won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury three times (more than any other director) with Offret (1986), Nostalghia (1983) and Stalker (1979).His favorite filmmakers were Akira Kurosawa, Luis Bu?uel, Ingmar Bergman, Robert Bresson, Kenji Mizoguchi, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean Vigo, and Carl Theodor Dreyer.According to Ingmar Bergman, Tarkovsky "is the greatest, the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream".Although strongly opposed to commercial cinema, in a famous exception Tarkovsky praised the blockbuster film The Terminator (1984), saying its "vision of the future and the relation between man and its destiny is pushing the frontier of cinema as an art".A minor planet, 3345 Tarkovskij, discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina in 1982, has been named after him.Tarkovsky's father Arseniy Tarkovskiy was a noted Russian poet, whose poetry Tarkovsky used in Stalker (1979) recited by the main character, and Mirror (1975) recited by Arseniy himself.Was also a film theorist, theatre and opera director.In their obituaries, the film committee of the Council of Ministers of the USSR and the Union of Soviet Film Makers expressed their sorrow that Tarkovsky had to spend the last years of his life in exile.Friend of Sergei Parajanov, who was best friends with Mikhail Vartanov. All were graduates of the legendary Russian film school VGIK and met many times; the latter's Russian Academy Award-winning Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992) features a poetic chapter on the the friendship of Parajanov and Tarkovsky.Under the influence of Glasnost and Perestroika, Tarkovsky was finally recognized in the Soviet Union in the Autumn of 1986, shortly before his death, by a retrospective of his films in Moscow.Buried in Orthodox Graveyard for Russian Emigr��s in Sainte-Genevi��ve-des-Bois, France.Member of the jury at the Venice Film Festival in 1982.Sergei Parajanov dedicated "Ashik Kerib" to Tarkovskiy.In his school years, he was a troublemaker and a poor student.One of his teachers at VGIK was Mikhail Romm."Dear Andrei Retrospective" held at the 2007 Navarra International Documentary Film Festival with Marina Tarkovsky and Alexander Gordon in attendance.Worked as a prospector for the Academy of Science Institute for Non-Ferrous Metals and Gold in the USSR. He also participated in a year-long research expedition to the river Kureikye near Turukhansk in the Krasnoyarsk Province. During this time in the taiga, Tarkovsky decided to study film.Profiled in "Films and Dreams: Tarkovsky, Bergman, Sokurov, Kubrick and Wong Kar-Wei" by Thurston Botz-Borsnstein. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2008.Tarkovskiy was born in Zavrazhye village, Yuryevets area, Ivanovo Region, Russian SFSR, USSR. That place goes now by the address of Zavrazhye, Kadyy area, Kostroma Region, Russian Federation.Was posthumously awarded the Lenin Prize in 1990, one of the highest state honors in the Soviet Union.Mikhail Romm, a Soviet film director, was his teacher and mentor.In Tarkovsky's last days, photographs of his three-month-old son Sasha were brought to the hospital, but he never saw the baby in person, as Sasha's mother Inger Pehrsson didn't visit him.At the State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), he was in the same class as Irma Raush whom he married in April 1957.Husband of actress, director, and children's author Irina Tarkovskaya [Irma Raush] (1st wife). Father of Arseniy Tarkovsky Jr [Senka] (born 30 Sep 1962) (with wife Irina) (son).Father of Aleksandr Tarkovsky [Sasha] (born Sep 1986) (son). The mother is Norwegian costume designer Inger Pehrsson.Son of poet and translator Arseniy Tarkovskiy (father) and Maria Ivanova Vishnyakova (born 1907) (mother).2nd Husband of Larisa Tarkovskaya [Larisa Kizilova (n��e Egorkina)] (2nd wife). Father of Andrey A. Tarkovskiy [Andriosha; Andrei Tarkovsky Jr] (with wife Larisa) (son). Stepfather of Olga Kizilova (daughter of wife Larisa from her previous marriage) (stepdaughter).Brother of writer and linguist Marina Tarkovskaya (sister). Brother-in-law of film school classmate director and author Aleksandr Gordon (husband of sister Marina). Uncle of writer, poet, biologist, trapper, and cinematographer Mikhail Tarkovsky (nephew), and child actress Ekaterina Tarkovskaya [Katya] (niece); the children of Marina and Gordon. |
| Trademarks: |
Long takes
Dripping water
Wind
Lack of conventional dramatic structure
Spirituality and metaphysical themes |
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My purpose is to make films that will help people to live, even if they sometimes cause unhappiness.
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Always with huge gratitude and pleasure I remember the films of Sergei Parajanov which I love very much. His way of thinking, his paradoxical, poetical . . . ability to love the beauty and the ability to be absolutely free within his own vision.
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An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it. Art is born out of an ill-designed world. This is the issue in Andrei Rublev (1966).
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[on directing] No "mise en sc��ne" has the right to be repeated, just as no two personalities are ever the same. As soon as a "mise en sc��ne" turns into a sign, a clich��, a concept (however original it may be), then the whole thing - characters, situation, psychology - become schematic and false.
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The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise. |
| Job title: |
Additional Crew,Writer,Director |
| Others works: |
(1974) Screenplay: "Hoffmanniana" (orig. Russian: "Hofmanana"), based on the life and work of the German writer and poet E.T.A. Hoffmann. Begun as a commission from Tallinnfilm (Estonia) to write a screenplay on a German theme, and aft |
| Spouse: |
Larisa Tarkovskaya (1970 - December 29, 1986) (his death, 1 child)Irina Tarkovskaya (April 1957 - June 1970) (divorced, 1 child) |
| Children: |
Andrey A. TarkovskiyAleksandr TarkovskyArseniy Senya Tarkovsky |
| Parents: |
Arseny Tarkovsky
Maria Vishnyakova |
| Relatives: |
Alexandr Tarkovsky (Grandparent)
Maria Rachkovskaya (Grandparent)
Marina Tarkovskaya (Sibling)
Mikhail Tarkovsky (Niece or Nephew) |
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