The Mirror (1975 film)

Mirror Russian , tr. Zerkalo known in the United States as The Mirror is a 1975 Russian art film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. It is loosely autobiographical, unconventionally structured, and incorporates poems composed and read by the directors father, Arseny Tarkovsky. The film features Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev, Alla Demidova, Anatoli Solonitsyn, Tarkovskys wife Larisa Tarkovskaya and his mother Maria Vishnyakova, with a soundtrack by Eduard Artemyev.

Mirror depicts the thoughts, emotions and memories of Alexei, or Alyosha Ignat Daniltsev, and the world around him as a child, adolescent, and fortyyearold. The adult Alexei is only briefly glimpsed, but is present as a voiceover in some scenes including substantial dialogue. The structure of the film is discontinuous and nonchronological, without a conventional plot, and combines incidents, dreams and memories along with some newsreel footage. The film switches among three different timeframes prewar 1935, wartime 1940s, and postwar 1960s or 70s.Mirror draws heavily on Tarkovskys own childhood. Memories such as the evacuation from Moscow to the countryside during the war, a withdrawn father and his own mother, who actually worked as a proofreader at a printing press, feature prominently. ........

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