Zerkalo (Original title)Mirror (Alternative title)A White White Day... (Alternative title)
Date: 1975 (Release)Country: USSRDirector: Andrei Tarkovsky
Synopsis: An autobiographical film that considers the interdependence of private and collective memories. A film on different levels. 1. Real life, an existing person and his relationship with his family. 2. Memories of this person 3. His childhood dreams and nightmares. All three intertwine without warning, with relevant newsreels interposed.
Genre: Biopic
Subject: Memory
Releases
Date: 1974not specifiedRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour and Black and White - SoundRuntime: 106 mins Length: 9548 Feet
Date: October 2013Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Colour and Black and White - SoundRuntime: 106 mins Dialogue (original): Russian / Subtitles: EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Date: 1975 (Release)Country: USSRDirector: Andrei Tarkovsky
Synopsis: An autobiographical film that considers the interdependence of private and collective memories. A film on different levels. 1. Real life, an existing person and his relationship with his family. 2. Memories of this person 3. His childhood dreams and nightmares. All three intertwine without warning, with relevant newsreels interposed.
Genre: Biopic
Subject: Memory
Releases
Date: 1974not specifiedRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Colour and Black and White - SoundRuntime: 106 mins Length: 9548 Feet
Date: October 2013Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Colour and Black and White - SoundRuntime: 106 mins Dialogue (original): Russian / Subtitles: EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Credits
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Production Company: Mosfilm, Producer: E. Waisberg, Production Manager: Y. Kushnerev, Assistant Director: Larissa Tarkovskaya, Assistant Director: V. Karchenko, Assistant Director: M. Chugunova, Screenplay: Aleksandr Misharin, Screenplay: Andrei Tarkovsky, Director of Photography: Georgi Rerberg, Lighting: V. Gusev, Camera Operator: A. Nikolaev, Camera Operator: I. Shtanko, Special Effects: Y. Potapov, Editor: Lyudmila Feiginova, Art Director: Nikolai Dvigubsky, Sets: A. Merkunov, Costumes: Nelli Fomina, Make-up: V. Rudina, Music: Eduard Artemiev, Music: Johann Sebastian Bach, Music: Giovanni Battista Pergolese, Music: Henry Purcell, Sound: Semyon Litvinov, English Subtitles: Peter Seward
Cast
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Margarita Terekhova (Alexei's mother/Natalia), Ignat Daniltsev (Ignat/Alexei, aged 12), Maria Tarkovskaya (Alexei's Mother, as an old woman), Alla Demidova (Lisa), Fillip Yankovsky (Alexei, aged 5), Oleg Yankovsky (Father), Nikolai Grinko (Man at Printing Shop), Yuri Nazarov (Military Instructor), Anatoli Solonitsyn (Passer-by), Innokenti Smoktunovsky (Voice of Alexei, the Narrator), Tamara Ogorodnikova, Y. Sventikov, T. Reshetnikova, E. Del Bosque, L. Correcher, A. Gutierres, D. Garcia, T. Pames, Teresa Del Bosque, Tatiana Del Bosque, Larissa Tarkovskaya (rich doctor's wife)