Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky • 1961 • Soviet Union
When Sasha, a seven-year-old violin protégé, meets Sergei, a steamroller working in his neighborhood, he starts to open up from his strictly imposed routine of practice. Made as a thesis film for the VGIK Soviet film school, this early work by Andrei Tarkovsky captures the sadness and joy of childhood with the keen perception and visual imagination of a master in the making.
This short 1966 documentary about the making of ANDREI RUBLEV is a project by Dina Musatova, who had studied at the film school VGIK with director Andrei Tarkovsky. This film is held by the Russian State Documentary Film & Photo Archive in Krasnogorsk.
Presented here is a brief collection of silent footage of Andrei Tarkovsky directing ANDREI RUBLEV. This archival material is held by the Russian State Documentary Film & Photo Archive in Krasnogorsk.
This 2018 documentary by filmmakers Louise Milne and Seán Martin features interviews with actor Nikolai Burlyaev, cinematographer Vadim Yusov, Tarkovsky personal assistant Olga Surkova, film critic Dmitri Salynsky, and Tarkovsky scholar Vida T. Johnson.
