Mirror
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A subtly ravishing passage through the halls of time and memory, this sublime reflection on twentieth-century Russian history by Andrei Tarkovsky (Stalker) is as much a poem composed in images, or a hypnagogic hallucination, as it is a work of cinema. In a richly textured collage of varying film stocks and newsreel footage, the recollections of a dying poet flash before our eyes, his dreams mingling with scenes of childhood, wartime, and marriage, all imbued with the mystical power of a trance. Largely dismissed by Soviet critics on its release because of its elusive narrative structure, Mirror has since taken its place as one of the director’s most renowned and influential works, a stunning personal statement from an artist transmitting his innermost thoughts and feelings directly from psyche to screen.
TWO-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer, a 2019 documentary about the director by his son Andrei A. Tarkovsky
- The Dream in the Mirror, a new documentary by Louise Milne and Seán Martin
- New interview with composer Eduard Artemyev
- Islands: Georgy Rerberg, a 2007 documentary about the cinematographer
- Archival interviews with Tarkovsky and screenwriter Alexander Misharin
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by critic Carmen Gray and, for the Blu-ray, the 1968 film proposal and literary script by Tarkovsky and Misharin that they ultimately developed into Mirror
New cover design by Nessim Higson
TWO-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer, a 2019 documentary about the director by his son Andrei A. Tarkovsky
- The Dream in the Mirror, a new documentary by Louise Milne and Seán Martin
- New interview with composer Eduard Artemyev
- Islands: Georgy Rerberg, a 2007 documentary about the cinematographer
- Archival interviews with Tarkovsky and screenwriter Alexander Misharin
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by critic Carmen Gray and, for the Blu-ray, the 1968 film proposal and literary script by Tarkovsky and Misharin that they ultimately developed into Mirror
New cover design by Nessim Higson
![Mirror](https://s3.amazonaws.com/criterion-production/films/729ba8bd7f066bab750d2fe963d37a77/AkLHyvTrDxSGVlvGaZdkHkuH9fSd0x_large.jpg)
Cast
- Margarita Terekhova
- Alexei’s mother/Natalia
- Ignat Daniltsev
- Ignat/Alexei, age twelve
- Larisa Tarkovskaya
- Nadezhda
- Alla Demidova
- Elizaveta Pavlovna
- Anatoly Solonitsyn
- Passerby
- Nikolai Grinko
- Man at printshop
- Tamara Ogorodnikova
- Nanny
- Yuri Nazarov
- Military instructor
- Oleg Yankovsky
- Father
- Filipp Yankovsky
- Alexei, age five
- Yuri Sventikov
- Yuri Zharov
- Tatiana Reshetnikova
- Young proofreader
- Innokenti Smoktunovsky
- Alexei (voice-over)
Credits
- Director
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Screenplay by
- Alexander Misharin
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Cinematography by
- Georgy Rerberg
- Art direction by
- Nikolai Dvigubsky
- Music by
- Eduard Artemyev
- Sound by
- Semyon Litvinov
- Edited by
- Lyudmila Feyginova
- Costumes by
- Nelli Fomina
- Makeup by
- Vera Rudina
- Poems by
- Arseny Tarkovsky
- Poems read by
- Arseny Tarkovsky
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