Title from container. Originally released as a motion picture in 1975. Full screen (1.37:1). Special features: Andrei Tarkovsky: A cinema prayer, a 2019 documentary; The dream in the mirror, a new documentary; new interview with composer Eduard Aretemyev; Islands: Georgy Rerberg, a 2007 documentary; archival interviews; essay by Carmen Gray. Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev, Filipp Yankovsky, Oleg Yankovsky, Larisa Tarkovskaya.
Summary:
In a richly textured collage of varying film stocks and newsreel footage, the recollections of a dying poet flash before the 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.
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