
TARKOVSKY
97 min | Russian/Italian/Swedish Documentary | Andrey A Tarkovsky
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
Bosphorus Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
Sao Paulo IFF
Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival
RIDM Montreal
Cinemania Fest
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
IDFA
International Film Festival of India – GOA
Porto/Post/Doc
Cinema Vérité
FEST Belgrade International Film Festival
FICUNAM, Festival Internacional de Cine UNAM
Cartagena de Indias International Film Festival – FICCI
Ljubljana Documentary Film Festival
ZagrebDox
CPH:DOX
Vilnius International Film Festival
Hong Kong International Film Festival
CinéDOC-Tbilisi
Docaviv International Documentary Film Festival
Espoo Ciné International Film Festival
Flatpack Festival
goEast
Docs Against Gravity Film Festival
Midnight sun festival
Telluride
PRESS QUOTES
FILMUFORIA
A masterpiece could be a manifestation of a soul passing next to you and clearly going upward, somewhere skyward, sweeping beside you, and leaving behind just a breath of wind for you to feel…
-Andrey Tarkovsky
COME-AND-REVIEW
A deep dive in Tarkovsky’s spiritualism
10/10
Rather than a biopic, Tarkovsky’s son compiles a documentary that draws from his father’s statements to narrate his artistic life. Little is shown about his private life (except his formative years), and the focus is on him as an auteur/director. Unlike most documentaries, there are no interviews or voice-over narrations. The only voice we hear (together with Arseniy Tarkovsky’s poetries read by him) is Tarkovsky, as he explains his experience and his artistic concepts and his cinematographic evolution. I would say that the main focus of the documentary is Tarkovsky’s spiritualism, his concept of how poetry requires spirituality, and art is a form of prayer. While most of the material is drawn from pre-existing media, I still found a few very interesting elements: I didn’t know that Tarkovsky directed Hamlet on stage with Anatoliy Solonitsin, and found it very delighting to see colour backstage recordings of the making of Andrei Rublev. The other element that Andrei A. Added, is the new recordings of some of the places where Tarkovsky lived: his Russian house, the house in Florence, etc., paired with recordings of the locations of Tarkovsky’s films (the city used in Andrej Rublev, the unfinished church from Nostalghia), as well as additional frames of natural scapes shot in tarkovskian taste, such as the opening shot, used for the poster. If you like Tarkovsky, make sure you see this!
DIRECTOR
Andrey A Tarkovsky
Producer
Andrey A. Tarkovsky
Dmitry Klepatski
Peter Krupenin
Paolo Maria Spina
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Alexey Naidenov
Editing
Michał Leszczyłowski
Andrey A. Tarkovsky
Associate Producers
Anthony Muir
Katarina Krave
PRoduced by
Andrey Tarkovsky
International Institute, Italy/Russia
Klepatsky Productions, Russia
HOBAB, Sweden
Revolver, Italy