Andrei Tarkovsky
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (Russian: Андрей Арсеньевич Тарковский, 4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) was a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, theatre director, writer, and film theorist. He is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential directors in the history of Russian and world cinema. His films explored spiritual and metaphysical themes, and are noted for their slow pacing and long takes, dreamlike visual imagery, and preoccupation with nature and memory.
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| Full name at birth | Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky
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| Date of birth | 4 April 1932
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| Place of birth | Zavrazhe, Ivanono, USSR (now Russia)
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| Date of death | 28 December 1986
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| Age | 54 (age at death)
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| Place of death | Paris, France
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![Andrei Tarkovsky - Lavry Kino Magazine Cover [Russia] (April 2017)](http://img3.bdbphotos.com/images/130x130/3/6/36o7qm3tjpufp337.jpg?skj2io4l)
- Profiled in "Films and Dreams: Tarkovsky, Bergman, Sokurov, Kubrick and Wong Kar-Wei" by Thurston Botz-Borsnstein. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2008.
- Father of Andriosha Tarkovsky, son of Arseni Tarkovsky.
- Tarkovskiy was born in Zavrazhye village, Yuryevets area, Ivanovo Region, Russian SFSR, USSR. That place goes now by the address of Zavrazhye, Kadyy area, Kostroma Region, Russian Federation.
- Although it was his most widely seen film outside of the Soviet Union, he reportedly regarded Solyaris (1972) as his least favorite of the films he directed.
- He said that children understood his films better than adults.
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