Andrei Tarkovsky

  • Name: Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Date of Birth: April 04, 1932
  • Place of Birth: Zavrazhe, Ivanono, USSR (now Russia)
Mini-bio: The most famous Soviet film-maker since Sergei M. Eisenstein, Andrei Tarkovsky (the son of noted poet Arseniy Tarkovsky) studied music and Arabic in Moscow before enrolling in the Soviet film school V...( read more)GIK. He shot to international attention with his first feature, Ivanovo detstvo (1962), which won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. This resulted in high expectations for his second feature _Andrei Rublyov (1969)_, which was banned by the Soviet authorities until 1971. It was shown at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival at 4 o'clock in the morning on the last day, in order to prevent it winning a prize - but it won one nonetheless, and was eventually distributed abroad partly to enable the authorities to save face. Solyaris (1972), had an easier ride, being acclaimed by many in the West as the Soviet answer to Kubrick's '2001' (though Tarkovsky himself was never too fond of it), but he ran into official trouble again with Zerkalo (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 the West. His last film, Offret (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 cancer at the end of the year.

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29 December 1986, Paris, France (lung cancer)
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  • pinkPF
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    Andrei is the greatest director ever, a real artist who loved the art for art , not for famous or money or any shit.
    i worship his works. he is like pink floyd of world of cinema to me.
    i feel he was not from this world , his works are more like to mracle to human done stuffs.
    we didn and wont have anyone like andrei anymore in this world. he was unique.
    god bless u for us ANDREI . oh how much i miss you ...
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