Igor Fomchenko, Marina Adzhubei, Natalya Arkhangelskaya, Vladimir Zamansky, Vyacheslav Borisov ...( see more  see more... ) , Yuri Brusser

Opposites can sometimes attract. In fact, that's the premise of this unique rumination by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky about the improbable friendship between Sasha, a sensitive young boy who pla...( read more  read more... )ys the violin, and Sergei, the macho driver of a steamroller. Shying away from sentiment, the film provides a warm, ironic look at two individuals who bridge differences in generations to form a powerful, lasting bond.

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Unrated, 45 min.

Directed by: Andrei Tarkovsky

Release Date: August 18, 1962

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DVD Release Date: August 27, 2002

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  • June 28, 2009
    Serious early signals about Tarkovsky.
  • December 17, 2008
    worth watching if you're a Tarkovsky fan to see some his recurring themes & ideas in their nascent stages.
  • September 14, 2008
    Short and cute (not using the word in the girly kind of way) - the story of the friendship between a young violist and a grown up worker
  • September 12, 2007
    It is an odd experience watching 'Steamroller' after all of Tarkovsky's later masterpieces. His style is completely different: more direct, and to the point. As a dissertation film it is beautiful and precise, which is probably the point as it functions well as Communist propagan...( read more)da. The editing is quicker, the shots are action oriented, and image tampering creates some very un-Tarkovskian images but, in the end, a very human film emerges (a trademark of his later work), and it's interesting as a contrast to his later works such as ?Rublev? and ?Solaris.?

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