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April 1975 (Soviet Union)
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A man in his forties is going to die and remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments but things that also tell the story of all the Russian nation... full summary | full synopsis
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Visual beauty made indelible and significant
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(Cast overview, first billed only)| Margarita Terekhova | ... | Natalya / Maroussia - the Mother | |
| Oleg Yankovskiy | ... | The Father | |
| Filipp Yankovsky | ... | Aleksei - 5-years-old | |
| Ignat Daniltsev | ... | Ignat / Aleksei - 12-year-old | |
| Nikolai Grinko | ... | Printery Director | |
| Alla Demidova | ... | Lisa | |
| Yuri Nazarov | ... | Military trainer | |
| Anatoli Solonitsyn | ... | Forensic doctor | |
| Larisa Tarkovskaya | ... | Nadezha - Mother of 12-y-o Alexei | |
| Tamara Ogorodnikova | ... | Nanny / Neighbour / Strange woman at the tea table | |
| Yuri Sventisov | ... | Yuri Zhary | |
| Tamara Reshetnikova | |||
| Innokenti Smoktunovsky | ... | Aleksei (voice) | |
| Arseni Tarkovsky | ... | Father (voice) | |
| E. Del Bosque | ... | A Spaniard |
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Also Known As:
Зеркало (Soviet Union: Russian title)
Sarke (Soviet Union: Georgian title)
The Mirror (USA)
White, White Day (English translation of working title)
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Sarke (Soviet Union: Georgian title)
The Mirror (USA)
White, White Day (English translation of working title)
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108 min
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Iceland:L |
Canada:G (Ontario) |
Australia:M |
Singapore:PG |
Argentina:13 |
Finland:K-12 |
West Germany:12 |
UK:U |
Hong Kong:I
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In the first scene involving a telephone call, the shot tracks past a poster for French adaptation of Andrey Rublyov (1966), another Andrei Tarkovsky film.
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Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the first scene, in which stutterer Yuri Zhary is being hypnotized, a shadow of the boom mic is prominently visible on the wall behind him. However, because this is clearly supposed to be a recreation of a TV broadcast, it appears to be a intentional error.
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Featured in "Zomergasten: (#3.4)" (1990)
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They Tell Us That Your Mighty Powers
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Has there ever been a more visually beautiful film than this one? That's a rhetorical question... one that only viewing it can answer.
To try to follow it as an ordinary narrative is to lose its poetic ambience...I let it wash over me like glorious music. We are so accustomed to "and then...and then" that our minds can follow as logic, that we tend to dismiss the affect that the visual image itself can have on our minds, hearts and souls. Tarkovsky is a poet...and for me this is his richest, most satisfying film of all. Included are film clips from WW 2, the Spanish Civil War, poetry by the director's father.
It does help to know that the same actress (Margarita Terekhova) plays the dying man's wife and his mother...as he allows his memory to shift over his life.
The only other director I can think of who understands the visual language of film and its significance as beautifully as Tarkovsky is Terence Malick.
Zerkalo is haunting and uplifting even as we know the "hero" is dying. Death, after all, is an intrinsic part of life.