880-01 Zerkalo / Mosfilʹm ; Chetvertoe tvorcheskoe obʺedinenie ; st︠s︡enariĭ Aleksandra Misharina, Andrei︠a︡ Tarkovskogo ; postanovka Andrei︠a︡ Tarkovskogo ; direktor kartiny Ė. Vaĭsberg = Mirror / Fourth Creative Artists Union ; screenplay by Alexander Misharin and Andrei Tarkovsky ; directed by Andrei Tarkovsky ; executive producer, E. Weisberg.
Edition:
Two-Blu-ray special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
2 videodiscs (106 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (87 pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm)
Container of (work): Andrei Tarkovsky, a cinema prayer (Motion picture) Container of (work): Dream in the mirror (Motion picture) Container of (work): Ostrova: Georgiĭ Rerberg (Motion picture)
Notes:
Margarita Terekhova, I. Danilʹt︠s︡ev, L. Tarkovskai︠a︡, A. Demidova, A. Solonit︠s︡yn, N. Grinʹko, F. I︠A︡nkovskiĭ, O. I︠A︡nkovskiĭ. Narrated by I. Smoktunovsky ; poetry reader, Arseni Tarkovsky. Title and credits from screen. Originally released as a motion picture in 1975. Full screen (1.37:1). 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 Sean Martin); New interview with composer Eduard Artemyev; Ostrova: Georgiĭ Rerberg = Islands: Georgy Rerberg (a 2007 documentary about the cinematographer); Archival interviews with Tarkovsky and screenwriter Alexander Misharin; New English subtitle translation; An essay by critic Carmen Gray and the 1968 film proposal and literary script by Tarkovsky and Misharin that ultimately developed into Mirror.
Contents:
disc 1. [Feature film and Andrei Tarkovsky: a cinema prayer] -- disc 2. [Special features].
Summary:
"A subtly ravishing passage through the halls of time and memory, Andrei Tarkovsky's sublime reflection on twentieth-century Russian history 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"--Container.
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