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A senses-ravishing odyssey through the halls of time and memory, Andrei Tarkovsky’s sublime reflection on 20th century Russian history is as much a film as it is a poem composed in images, as much a work of cinema as it is a hypnagogic hallucination. In a richly textured collage of varying film stocks and newsreel footage, the recollections of a dying poet flash before our eyes, dreams mingling with scenes of childhood, wartime, and marriage, all imbued with the mystic power of a trance. Largely dismissed by Soviet critics upon its release due to its elusive narrative structure, Mirror has since taken its place as one of the titan director’s most renowned and influential works, a stunning personal statement from an artist transmitting his innermost thoughts and feelings directly from psyche to screen.

  • Year
    1974
  • Runtime
    106 minutes
  • Language
    Russian
  • Country
    Soviet Union
  • Director
    Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Screenwriter
    Andrei Tarkovsky, Aleksandr Misharin
  • Cast
    Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev, Larisa Tarkovskaya
  • Cinematographer
    Georgi Rerberg
  • Editor
    Lyudmila Feiginova
  • Music
    Eduard Artemyev