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The Mirror is a 1975 Soviet film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Aleksandr Misharin. The cast includes Margarita Terekhova, Oleg Yankovsky, Anatoly Solonitsyn, and Alla Demidova. Produced by Mosfilm, the black-and-white picture is categorized as an experimental, drama, and biographical film. Eduard Artemyev composed the music, and the narrative is set in the Soviet Union.
The film has a runtime of 107 or 108 minutes and was released on March 7, 1975. It is distributed via video on demand by Netflix. Keywords associated with the work include dreams, wind, poetry, World War II, and cigarette. The production had a budget of 825,000 and a capital cost of 622,000, generating revenue of 124,367.
Review scores for The Mirror include 9.1/10, 100%, and 82/100. On IMDb, it holds a rating of 7.9 based on 57,808 votes, while TMDb lists a vote average of 7.953 from 1,088 votes. The film is noted for its assessment regarding the Bechdel test.
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Film · TMDB
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
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- experimental film
- Country of origin
- Soviet Union
- Original language
- Russian
- Director
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Screenwriter
- Aleksandr Misharin
- Cast member
- Yuriy Nazarov
- Composer
- Eduard Artemyev
- Production company
- Mosfilm
- Narrative location
- Soviet Union
- Duration
- 108
- FilmAffinity ID
- 871444
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1975-03-07
- title
- Зеркало
- distributed by
- Netflix
- color
- black-and-white
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- review score
- 82/100
- capital cost
- 622000
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Mirror” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.