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A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
Language
Budget$825,000
Revenue $124,367
Español,
Pусский
Budget$825,000
Revenue $124,367
Keywords
dreams
wind
poetry
world war ii
cigarette
field
spanish civil war (1936-39)
nostalgia
forest
terminal illness
flashback
dying man
avant-garde
illness
childhood
post world war ii
dream sequence
newsreel footage
nostalgic
reflection
poetry recitation
russian history
criterion
sepia color
historical drama
memoirs
1940s
1960s
non-narrative
somber
self reflection
1930s
reflective
portrait of an artist
dreamlike
russia
soviet union history
memories
stream of consciousness
existentialist
20th century
experimental film
pre war soviet union
russian poetry
nonlinear narrative
voice-over
nostalgic memory
biographical drama
the great patriotic war
dying poet
Casts

Margarita Terekhova
Natalya / Maroussia - the Mother

Ignat Daniltsev
Ignat / Alexei - 12 Years Old
Larisa Tarkovskaya
Nadezha - Mother of 12-Year-Old Alexei

Alla Demidova
Lisa

Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Forensic Doctor

Nikolay Grinko
Printery Director

Tamara Ogorodnikova
Nanny / Neighbour / Strange Woman at Tea Table

Yuriy Nazarov
Rifle Shooting Instructor

Oleg Yankovskiy
The Father

Filipp Yankovsky
Aleksei - 5 Years Old
Yuri Sventikov
Asafiev - War Orphan

Tatyana Reshetnikova
Proofreader in Printing House
Mariya Tarkovskaya-Vishnyakova
Old Mother
Olga Kizilova
Redheaded Girl
Ernesto del Bosque
Spanish Refugee
Luis Correcher
Spanish Refugee

Ángel Gutiérrez
Spanish Refugee
Dionisio García Zapico
Spanish Refugee
Tomas Pamies
Spanish Refugee
Teresa Del Bosque
Spanish Refugee Twin
Tatiana Del Bosque
Spanish Refugee Twin

Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
Narrator - The Author's Words (voice)

Arseny Tarkovsky
Narrator - His Own Poems (voice)
Crews

Lyudmila Feiginova
Editor

Georgi Rerberg
Director of Photography
Erik Waisberg
Producer

Aleksandr Misharin
Writer

Andrei Tarkovsky
Writer

Nelli Fomina
Costume Design

Eduard Artemyev
Original Music Composer
Semyon Litvinov
Sound
Anatoliy Nikolayev
Camera Operator
Igor Shtanko
Camera Operator
Larisa Tarkovskaya
Assistant Director
Nikolay Dvigubskiy
Production Design

Yuriy Kushneryov
Production Manager
Ventzislav Ivanov
Assistant Camera
A. Merkulov
Construction Foreman
Vera Rudina
Makeup Artist

Arseny Tarkovsky
Poem
Valeriy Kharchenko
Assistant Director
Mariya Chugunova
Assistant Director

Andrei Tarkovsky
Director

Arseny Tarkovsky
Author
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