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8.0A 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.
Cast
- Margarita Terekhova as Natalya / Maroussia - the Mother
- Ignat Daniltsev as Ignat / Alexei - 12 Years Old
- Larisa Tarkovskaya as Nadezha
- Alla Demidova as Lisa
- Anatoliy Solonitsyn as Forensic Doctor
- Mykola Hrynko as Printery Director
Themes
- dreams
- wind
- poetry
- world war ii
- cigarette
- field
- spanish civil war (1936-39)
- nostalgia
- forest
- terminal illness
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Written by
- Aleksandr Misharin Andrei Tarkovsky
- Produced by
- Erik Waisberg
- Starring
- Margarita Terekhova Ignat Daniltsev Larisa Tarkovskaya Alla Demidova Anatoly Solonitsyn Tamara Ogorodnikova
- Narrated by
- Innokenty Smoktunovsky Arseny Tarkovsky
- Cinematography
- Georgy Rerberg
- Edited by
- Lyudmila Feiginova
- Music by
- Eduard Artemyev
- Production company
- Mosfilm
- Release date
- 7 March 1975 ( 1975-03-07 )
- Running time
- 106 minutes
- Country
- Soviet Union
- Languages
- Russian, Spanish
- Budget
- 622,000 Rbls
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Wikidata facts
- Duration
- 108
- FilmAffinity ID
- 871444
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- publication date
- 1975-03-07
- title
- Зеркало
- review score
- 82/100
- capital cost
- 622000
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Mirror (Russian: Зеркало, romanized: Zerkalo) is a 1975 Soviet avant-garde drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and written by Tarkovsky and Aleksandr Misharin. The film features Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev, Alla Demidova, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Tarkovsky's wife Larisa Tarkovskaya, and his mother Maria Vishnyakova. Innokenty Smoktunovsky contributed voiceover dialogue and Eduard Artemyev composed incidental music and sound effects.
Mirror portrays a dying poet pondering his memories. It is loosely autobiographical, unconventionally structured, and draws on a wide variety of source material, including newsreel footage of major moments in Soviet history and the poetry of the director's father, Arseny Tarkovsky. Its cinematography slips between color, black-and-white, and sepia. Its nonlinear narrative has delighted and frustrated critics and audiences for decades. The film's loose flow of oneiric images has been compared with the stream of consciousness technique associated with modernist literature.