★ 8.1
1975
USSR
108 min
The Mirror
“Memory is the only truth.”
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
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 SydowLaure DechasnelMicheline PresleFrançois ArnalMonique FluzinClaire WauthionMarie VerschuerenFéodor Atkine
Screenplay — Claude d'Anna
Cinematography — Eduard van der Enden
Music — Alain Pierre
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Source Material
Mirror (Screenplay)
The book behind the film. Sometimes the real horror is in the margins.
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