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Overview

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Director:
Andrei Tarkovsky
Writers:
Aleksandr Misharin (writer)
Andrei Tarkovsky (writer)
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Release Date:
April 1975 (Soviet Union) more
Genre:
Biography | Drama | History | War more
Plot:
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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NewsDesk:
Sophie Barthes' Top Ten Films of All Time
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Cast

  (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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Additional Details

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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Runtime:
108 min
Country:
Soviet Union
Language:
Russian | Spanish
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Company:
Mosfilm Unit 4 more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Andrei Tarkovsky prepared over 20 different cuts before he finally was happy with the film. more
Goofs:
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. more
Quotes:
Father: It seems to make me return to the place, poignantly dear to my heart, where my grandfathers house used to be in which i was born 40 years ago right on the dinner table. Each time i try to enter it, something prevents me from doing that. I see this dream again and again... more
Movie Connections:
Featured in Im Laboratorium des Doktor von Trier: Zurück zur Magie des Kinos (1998) (TV) more
Soundtrack:
They Tell Us That Your Mighty Powers more

FAQ

Which paint inspired the famous scene with a bird landing at boy's head?
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60 out of 68 people found the following comment useful:-
Tops, 26 March 2001
Author: the_monocle from New York City

It's not easy to make such judgments, but this is my favorite film. A personal choice, for sure, but what MIRROR achieves is the height of poetry and literature. Its final moment, if it works for you (and I can imagine it wouldn't for all), is a success of the "method of indirection" sought by poetry. Its effect is cumulative and devastating.

People often stress the difficulty of this film, but my only answer is to allow it to wash over you and allow it to have its effect. The first time I saw it, I was amazed, but a little baffled. The second time I cried. Each time since then I've teared up, if not actually wept. Its presentation, in its last shots, of the totality of the human experience, combined with the Bach's St John Passion, crushes me every time. And I'm not even Russian. Nor am I religious--this is the closest I get to religion. You just have to be human to understand MIRROR. This is the way of all Tarkovsky.

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