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Tarkovsky's first film: The Steamroller And The Violin (1961)43'
19 November 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Facing any of Tarkovsk's films in the eyes of the faithful promises awe-inspiring aesthetic journey that can tremble the angels far beyond the reach of the soul. According to those who can not speak very positively, the same films may be accompanied by intense confusion, distress and downright antipathy. (Sealed Time / Tarkovsky)

Tarkovski became a student of Mikhail Romm when he entered the Moscow Cinematography Institute. When he received his diploma in 1961, he was praised for his name in the film Cylinder and Violin.

For Tarkovsky's Cylinder and Violin, he says, "I did not try eclecticism before Ivan's Child was ruled before I started working at Mosfilm."

In an interview with Ivan about his childhood, Tarkovski said, "I wanted to convey all the hatred I felt about the war. I chose childhood because childhood is the most contradictory state of war. It is not built on a plan in the film, it is based on the opposition between war and the child's feelings. This whole kid's family was murdered. When the movie starts, the boy is in the middle of the war. " Tarkovski tells the relationship between a cylinder and a Kemanda worker and a child. This film also reveals the unusual camera angles and complexity that Tarkovski will have at the peak of Ivan's Childhood. In terms of character and event cycle, Cylinder and Violin will form the basis of Tarkovski's poetic cinema understanding. The film and the metaphor of the dreams and dreams we encounter, Apple and indispensable Tarkovski cinema.

For Tarkovsky, reasoning and even ethics requires that the formal logic be transformed into a "logic of the dream"; because according to Tarkovsky, the poems of dreams represent "one of the ways of being in the world's consciousness" and support our efforts to "face reality". (Sculp-ting in Time, p.21)  

Does the rhythm of life hinder your imagination?

"What shall I do with you? Too much imagination. "

The violin teacher tells Sasha in front of the metronome device, "What will I do with you too much imagination" presents an impressive metaphor for Sasha's dream world and our rythmic sense of real life.

In the film, Sergei is a role model father who protects Sasha and her from bullies. The story of the roller driver and the violinist.

Cylinder and Violin is a short story of Tarkovsky's visual composition filled with the mirror-reflection notions, the metaphorical atmospheric structure, the time of music and the painful yet sweet accompaniment of the main.

Tarkovski writes in 1960 with Andrey Mikhalkov Koncalovski, a screenplay. Completed in 1961, the film is awarded first prize at the New York Student Films Festival. After Mosfilm Studios decided that director Eduard Abalov would not continue Ivan's Childhood, Tarkovski was hired to complete the project.
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