“Poetic cinema” — the director who changed the art of film. Seven films, each of them a universe.
Tarkovsky. Chronicle
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Tarkovsky on his sixteenth birthday
Moscow, 1948.
Photo: Lev Gornung / State Central Cinema Museum, Moscow
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About the director
A poet of the screen. A seer of cinema.
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (4 April 1932 — 29 December 1986) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. One of the most significant and influential directors in the history of world cinema.
He was born into the family of the poet Arseny Tarkovsky and the actress Maria Vishnyakova. He graduated from VGIK in 1960. Even his diploma work, “The Steamroller and the Violin”, was awarded a prize at the New York film festival.
In his short career he made only seven feature films, each of which became an event of world culture. His directorial style is marked by long slow shots, metaphorical imagery and a fusion of real and unreal space.
He spent the last years of his life in emigration, in Italy and Sweden. He died of lung cancer in Paris and is buried at the Russian cemetery of Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois.
- Place of birth
- Zavrazhye, Ivanovo Region
- Years of activity
- 1958 — 1986
- Education
- VGIK, Mikhail Romm’s workshop
- People’s Artist of the RSFSR
- 1980
Seven films. Seven worlds.
The complete directorial filmography of Andrei Tarkovsky, 1962–1986
1962
1966
1972
1975
1979
1983
1986
I believe the aim of art is to prepare a person for death, to plough and harrow his soul, rendering it capable of turning to good.
Screenings and events
Upcoming events
Memorial day
Conference “The Poetics of Tarkovsky Today” and an evening screening of “Stalker” in a 4K digital restoration.
Sculpting in time
A special screening of “Stalker” introduced by Gosfilmofond film scholars. Grand Hall.