TMDB 8.1 1975 USSR 108 min

The Mirror

Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

Memory is the only truth.

A dying man looks back on his life through fragmented memories — his childhood, his mother, his former wife — interwoven with wartime newsreel footage and poetry.

Starring
Max von SydowMargarita TerekhovaLaure DechasnelIgnat Daniltsev
with Micheline Presle, Larisa Tarkovskaya, François Arnal, Alla Demidova
Screenplay — Claude d'Anna
Cinematography — Georgi Rerberg
Cinematography — Eduard van der Enden
Screenplay — Aleksandr Misharin
Music — Alain Pierre
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Deep Dive

The interpretation layer: what to read, listen to and play around this film.

01
Screenplay

Mirror (Screenplay)

Andrei Tarkovsky

Tarkovsky's own text. Reads less like a script than an attempt to catalogue his mother's memory.

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02 Companion Collected Short Stories Nabokov also wrote childhood as something you can only approach sideways. → 03 Soundtrack The Mirror OST Eduard Artemyev →

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