Works by Andrei Tarkovsky
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Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–1986){{cite news|last=Goodman|first=Walter|date=30 December 1986|title=Andrei Tarkovsky, Director and Soviet Emigre, Dies at 54|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/30/obituaries/andrei-tarkovsky-director-and-soviet-emigre-dies-at-54.html|work=The New York Times|access-date=11 January 2021|archive-date=16 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116123923/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/12/30/obituaries/andrei-tarkovsky-director-and-soviet-emigre-dies-at-54.html|url-status=live}} was a Soviet{{efn|Tarkovsky was born in the Russian SFSR, with his mother being from the Dubasov ({{lang|ru|Дубасовы}}) family of Russian nobility, and with mixed Polish, Romanian and Russian ancestry on his paternal side; his nationality remained Soviet throughout his life, even during his last years in exile.}} filmmaker who is widely regarded as one of the greatest directors of all time.{{cite news|last1=Bradshaw|first1=Peter|last2=Hans|first2=Simran|last3=Bray|first3=Catherine|last4=Leigh|first4=Danny|date=9 July 2022|title=If you watch only one film … the greatest movies by the greatest directors|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jul/09/the-greatest-movies-by-the-greatest-directors|work=The Guardian|access-date=25 December 2022|archive-date=24 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221224221033/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/jul/09/the-greatest-movies-by-the-greatest-directors|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/where-begin-with-andrei-tarkovsky|title=Where to begin with Andrei Tarkovsky|last=Gray|first=Carmen|date=27 October 2015|publisher=British Film Institute|access-date=25 December 2022|archive-date=31 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331091343/https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/where-begin-with-andrei-tarkovsky|url-status=live}} His films are considered Romanticist and are often described as "slow cinema", with the average shot-length in his final three films being over a minute (compared to seconds for most modern films).{{cite magazine|last=Ross|first=Alex|date=8 February 2021|title=The Drenching Richness of Andrei Tarkovsky|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/02/15/the-drenching-richness-of-andrei-tarkovsky|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=25 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221125105419/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/02/15/the-drenching-richness-of-andrei-tarkovsky|archive-date=25 November 2022|url-status=live}} In his thirty-year career, Tarkovsky directed several student films and seven feature films, co-directed a documentary, and wrote numerous screenplays. He also directed a stage play and wrote a book.
Born in the Soviet Union, Tarkovsky began his career at the State Institute of Cinematography, where he directed several student films.{{cite news|date=7 June 2012|title=Andrei Tarkovsky's Very First Films: Three Student Films, 1956-1960|url=https://www.openculture.com/2012/06/andrei_tarkovskys_very_first_films_three_student_films_1956-1960.html|publisher=Open Culture|access-date=18 June 2023|archive-date=7 February 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230207085904/https://www.openculture.com/2012/06/andrei_tarkovskys_very_first_films_three_student_films_1956-1960.html|url-status=live}} In 1956, he made his directorial debut with the student film The Killers, an adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's eponymous short story. His first feature film was 1962's Ivan's Childhood, considered by some to be his most conventional film.{{cite web|url=http://www.chicagoreader.com/movies/archives/2000/0900/000915.html|title=One Day in the Life of Andre Arsenevich |last=Rosenbaum|first=Jonathan|date=1 September 2002|work=Chicago Reader|access-date=1 September 2008| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080922140501/http://www.chicagoreader.com/movies/archives/2000/0900/000915.html| archive-date= 22 September 2008| url-status= live}} It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.{{cite web|url=https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2236-return-to-childhood|title=Return to Childhood|publisher=Criterion|access-date=26 December 2022|archive-date=26 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226184540/https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2236-return-to-childhood|url-status=live}} In 1966, he directed the biopic Andrei Rublev, which garnered him the International Critics' Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
In 1972, he directed the science fiction film Solaris, which was a response to what Tarkovsky saw as the "phoniness" of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).{{cite news|last=Shave|first=Nick|date=1 May 2020|title=I've never seen … Solaris|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/may/01/ive-never-seen-solaris-andrei-tarkovsky-film|work=The Guardian|access-date=1 December 2020|archive-date=7 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200707231828/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/may/01/ive-never-seen-solaris-andrei-tarkovsky-film|url-status=live}} Solaris was loosely based on the novel of the same title by Stanislaw Lem and won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.{{cite news|last=Bose|first=Swapnil Dhruv|date=30 October 2020|title=The reason why Stanisław Lem was furious about Andrei Tarkovsky's adaptation of his novel 'Solaris'|url=https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/why-stanislaw-lem-hated-andrei-tarkovsky-solaris-adaptation/|work=Far Out Magazine|access-date=16 May 2023|archive-date=17 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230517022129/https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/why-stanislaw-lem-hated-andrei-tarkovsky-solaris-adaptation/|url-status=live}}{{cite web|url=https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/films/solaris|title=Solaris|publisher=Festival de Cannes|access-date=25 December 2022|archive-date=26 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226062641/https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/films/solaris|url-status=live}} His next film was Mirror (1975). In 1976, Tarkovsky directed his only play—a stage production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet at the Lenkom Theatre. Viewing Tarkovsky as a dissident, Soviet authorities shut down the production after only a few performances. His final film produced in the Soviet Union, Stalker (1979), garnered him the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at Cannes.{{cite web|url=https://mubi.com/films/stalker/awards|title=Stalker: Awards and Festivals|website=MUBI|access-date=21 May 2023}}
Tarkovsky left the Soviet Union in 1979 and directed the film Nostalghia and the accompanying documentary Voyage in Time.Dunne (2008), p. 169. At the Cannes Film Festival, Nostalghia was awarded the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury but was blocked from receiving the Palme d'Or by Soviet authorities.{{cite news|last=Hoberman|first=J.|date=24 January 2014|title=Andrei Tarkovsky's 'Nostalghia' on Blu-ray|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/movies/homevideo/andrei-tarkovskys-nostalghia-on-blu-ray.html|work=The New York Times|access-date=18 June 2023|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304154622/http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/26/movies/homevideo/andrei-tarkovskys-nostalghia-on-blu-ray.html|url-status=live}} In 1985, he published a book, Sculpting in Time, in which he explored art and cinema. His final film, The Sacrifice (1986), was produced in Sweden, shortly before his death from cancer. The film garnered Tarkovsky his second Grand Prix at Cannes, as well as a second International Critics' Prize, a Best Artistic Contribution, and another Prize of the Ecumenical Jury.{{cite web|url=https://www.siff.com/english/content?aid=import-cms-1364|title=All Masterpieces of Andrei Tarkovsky will be Shown at the SIFF|date=29 March 2016|publisher=Shanghai International Film Festival|access-date=25 December 2022|archive-date=26 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226054844/https://www.siff.com/english/content?aid=import-cms-1364|url-status=live}} He was posthumously awarded the Lenin Prize in 1990, the most prestigious award in the Soviet Union.Dunne (2008), p. 431.
Filmography
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=Unfilmed scripts=
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1975
!scope=row| Hoffmanniana |style="text-align:center;"|Dunne (2008), p. 429. |
1978
!scope=row| Sardor |style="text-align:center;"|Dunne (2008), p. 430. |
1981
!scope=row| The Witch |
Theatrical productions
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align="center" | 1976
!scope=row| Hamlet | Lenkom Theatre, Moscow |style="text-align:center;"|{{cite web|url=https://archivesspace.library.nd.edu/repositories/3/resources/1941|title=Katya Kompaneyets and Tengiz Mirzashvili sketches for Andrey Tarkovsky's Hamlet|website=Hesburgh Libraries|publisher=University of Notre Dame|access-date=25 December 2022|archive-date=26 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226044229/https://archivesspace.library.nd.edu/repositories/3/resources/1941|url-status=live}} |
Bibliography
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align="center" | 1985
!scope=row| Sculpting in Time |
References
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=Works cited=
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- {{cite book|editor1-last=Dunne|editor1-first=Nathan|date=2008|title=Tarkovsky|publisher=Black Dog|isbn=9781906155049|ref=Dunne}}
- {{cite book|last1=Johnston|first1=Vida T.|last2=Petrie|first2=Graham|title=The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue|url=https://archive.org/details/filmsandreitarko00john|url-access=limited|pages=[https://archive.org/details/filmsandreitarko00john/page/n44 63], 315–318|publisher=Indiana University Press|date=1994|isbn=0253208874|ref=Johnston}}
- {{cite journal|last1=Riley|first1=John A.|date=2017|title=Hauntology, Ruins, and the Failure of the Future in Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker|journal=Journal of Film and Video|publisher=University of Illinois Press|volume=69|issue=1|pages=18–26|doi=10.5406/jfilmvideo.69.1.0018|s2cid=194435428|ref=Riley}}
- {{cite journal|last1=Totaro|first1=Donato|date=Spring 1992|title=Time and the Film Aesthetics of Andrei Tarkovsky|journal=Revue Canadienne d'Études cinématographiques/Canadian Journal of Film Studies|volume=2|issue=1|pages=21–30|doi=10.3138/cjfs.2.1.21|jstor=24402079|ref=Totaro}}
- {{cite journal|last1=Sushytska|first1=Julia|date=Spring 2015|title=Tarkovsky's Nostalghia: A Journey to the Home That Never|journal=The Journal of Aesthetic Education|volume=49|issue=1|pages=36–43|doi=10.5406/jaesteduc.49.1.0036 |jstor=10.5406/jaesteduc.49.1.0036 |s2cid=190401817 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jaesteduc.49.1.0036|ref=Sushytska}}
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