Mirror

Unrated

9/1/19801h 47m

Premiere Release (US)

Overview:

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.

Director:

Andrei Tarkovsky

Status:

Released

Language:

Russian

Buget:

$825,000.00

Revenue:

$124,367.00

Key words:

dreams
wind
poetry
world war ii
cigarette
field
spanish civil war (1936-39)
nostalgia
forest
terminal illness
flashback
dying man
avant-garde
illness
childhood
post world war ii
dream sequence
newsreel footage
nostalgic
reflection
poetry recitation
russian history
sepia color
historical drama
memoirs
1940s
1960s
non-narrative
somber
self reflection
1930s
reflective
portrait of an artist
dreamlike
russia
soviet union history
memories
stream of consciousness
existentialist
20th century
experimental film
pre war soviet union
russian poetry
nonlinear narrative
voice-over
nostalgic memory
biographical drama
the great patriotic war
dying poet

Cast

Margarita Terekhova

~ as ~

Natalya / Maroussia - the Mother

Ignat Daniltsev

~ as ~

Ignat / Alexei - 12 Years Old

Larisa Tarkovskaya

~ as ~

Nadezha - Mother of 12-Year-Old Alexei

Alla Demidova

~ as ~

Lisa

Anatoliy Solonitsyn

~ as ~

Forensic Doctor

Nikolay Grinko

~ as ~

Printery Director

Tamara Ogorodnikova

~ as ~

Nanny / Neighbour / Strange Woman at Tea Table

Yuriy Nazarov

~ as ~

Rifle Shooting Instructor

Oleg Yankovskiy

~ as ~

The Father

Filipp Yankovsky

~ as ~

Aleksei - 5 Years Old

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Reviews (1)

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tmdb47633491
Written 7 year(s) ago
9
Watching this again at age 24 with strep throat while the sun came up this morning, when I got to the part where the dog walks out the door and the woman starts picking up peaches or potatoes or whatever, I was literally reborn, etc.