Regi Andrej Tarkovskij

Sep 23 1988 Not Rated 1h 42m
Documentary

This documentary offers a rare glimpse of the legendary Soviet filmmaker, Andrei Tarkosvky, at work. Tarkovsky made only seven films in his brief, but brilliant, career; Michal Leszczylowski's respectful movie chronicles him at work on his last film, The Sacrifice. Offering insight into Tarkovsky's working methods and transcendental aesthetics, the movie is a compelling account of the difficulties of film production. In the case of an uncompromising and visionary filmmaker like Tarkovsky, the practical problems of filmmaking are only magnified, as cast and crew struggle to realize the ambitious concepts in Tarkovsky's mind.

Plot

During the shooting of Andrei Tarkovsky's last film Offret, cameraman Arne Carlsson taped around 50 hours of behind the scenes footage. Editor Michal Leszczylowski took the material and added scenes of previous interviews and interesting statements from the script of Offret and from Tarkovsky's book 'Sculpting in Time'. The result is a documentary that shows the way Tarkovksy worked: carefully building each scene. Shows why he did the things he did: his vision on film. And shows the emotion of the man Tarkovsky: his great disappointment when the camera breaks while shooting the house going up in flames.

Written by

Michal Leszczylowski

Directed by

Michal Leszczylowski

Cast

Erland Josephson, Andrei Tarkovsky, Larisa Tarkovskaya

Crew

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Production Countries

Sweden

Production Companies

Svenska Filminstitutet

Languages

English, svenska

Awards

2 wins

Scores
# of Votes
916
Average Rating
7.7 out of 10
Metascore
NA
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