Mirror - The Criterion Collection

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.

Special Features

Documentaries: 'Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer' (2019); 'Islands: Georgy Rerberg' (2007); 'The Dream in the Mirror', Interviews: Eduard Artemyev (composer); Andrei Tarkovsky (director); Alexander Misharin (screenwriter), Essay by Carmen Gray (critic)

Actors: Alla Demidova, Larisa Tarkovskaya, Nikolai Grinko, Ignat Danilstev, Anatoli Solonitsyn, Yuri Nazarov, Yuri Sventisov, Tamara Ogorodnikova, Margarita Terekhova, Oleg Yankovskiy, Oleg Yankovskiy, Margarita Terekhova

Audio Languages: Russian

Duration: 107 minutes

Number of Discs: 2

Subtitle Languages: English

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