The Mirror

The Mirror (1975)

Genres - Drama, War  |   Sub-Genres - Essay Film  |   Release Date - Aug 17, 1983 (USA), Jan 24, 2014 (USA - Limited)  |   Run Time - 108 min.  |   MPAA Rating - G
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Synopsis by Clarke Fountain

The award-winning director Andrei Tarkovsky, (one of his better known films is Andrei Rublev), the son of a famous Russian poet, was born in 1935 and grew up in and around Moscow during the Second World War. This non-linear autobiographical film is considered by many Russian-speakers to be his best film and is his most personal meditation on time, history and the Russian countryside. In a series of episodes and images, he captures the mood and feeling of the period just before, during and after the war. Lyrical reminiscences of his mother and of his father's poetry figure large in the film, along with extraordinary images of nature. Combining black-and-white and color work, with some unusual documentary footage, this highly regarded movie is structured with the logic of a dream.

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Keywords

childhood, countryside, father, flashback, history, mother, personal, Russian [nationality], war, family, filmmaker, hypnosis, stutterer

Attributes

High Artistic Quality, High Historical Importance