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Andrei Tarkovsky

Also known as Andrej Tarkovskij, Andrei Tarkovski, Andrej Tarkovszkij, And. Arsenʹevich Tarkovskiĭ, Andrey Arsenyevich Tarkovsky, Andreĭ Arsenʹevich Tarkovskĭi, Andrei Tarkovskij, Andreĭ Arsenévich Tarkovskiĭ

Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director (1932–1986)

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Andrei Tarkovsky was a Soviet and Russian filmmaker and theorist (1932–1986) who worked across film, theatre, and opera and is considered one of the most influential directors in cinema history. His innovative visual style and philosophical approach to filmmaking shaped modern cinema and continue to influence artists and filmmakers worldwide.

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Time within Time
Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Rublev

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Directing · Zavrazhye, USSR

Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (April 4, 1932 – December 29, 1986) was a Soviet filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist and opera director, widely regarded as one of the finest filmmakers of the 20th century. Tarkovsky's films include Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Mirror and Stalker. They are characterized by spirituality and metaphysical themes, long takes, lack of conventional dramatic structure…

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Daedalus — Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)2024
Death — Self (voice)2024
My God! I Feel Your Presence Approaching! — (archive)2023
Morceaux de Cannes2021
Alone — Narrator2020
Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)2019
Andrei Tarkovsky: Hard to Be a God — Self (archive footage)2019
A Letter to Tarkovsky — Self (archive footage)2016
Legends of Cinema — Self (archive footage)2016
Tarkovsky: Time Within Time — Self2015

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Country: Russia
Active from: 1932
Active to: 1986

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Listeners: 907
Total plays: 2,115

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Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning
· 2015 · cited 22,963x
Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
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Law and Finance
· 1998 · cited 13,222x
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,810x
The RAST Server: Rapid Annotations using Subsystems Technology
· 2008 · cited 10,639x

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Quotes

“An artist needs knowledge and the power of observation only so that he can tell from what he is abstaining, and to be sure that his abstention will not appear artificial or false.”
“For me the most interesting characters are outwardly static, but inwardly charged by an overriding passion.”
“I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.”
“The idea of infinity cannot be expressed in words or even described, but it can be apprehended through art, which makes infinity tangible. The absolute is only attainable through faith and in the creative act.”
“Modern mass culture, aimed at the "consumer", the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being.”
“The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good.”

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Commons category: Andrey Tarkovsky
date of birth: 1932-04-04
date of death: 1986-12-28
start of work period: 1958-00-00
name in native language: Андрей Арсеньевич Тарковский
end of work period: 1986-00-00
birth name: Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky

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Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (Russian: Андрей Арсеньевич Тарковский, pronounced [ɐnˈdrʲej ɐrˈsʲenʲjɪvʲɪtɕ tɐrˈkofskʲɪj] ; 4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter of Russian origin. He is widely considered one of the greatest directors in cinema history. His films explore spiritual and metaphysical themes and are known for their slow pacing and long takes, dreamlike visual imagery and preoccupation with nature and memory.

Tarkovsky studied film at the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography under filmmaker Mikhail Romm and subsequently directed his first five features in the Soviet Union: Ivan's Childhood (1962), Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1972), Mirror (1975), and Stalker (1979). After years of creative conflict with state film authorities, he left the country in 1979 and made his final two films—Nostalghia (1983) and The Sacrifice (1986)—abroad. In 1986, he published Sculpting in Time, a book about cinema and art. He died later that year of cancer, a condition possibly caused by the toxic locations used in the filming of Stalker.