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Mirror (1975)

Mirror (1975)

Drama History
Release Date: 1975, March 7
Directors: Andrei Tarkovsky
Countries: Soviet Union
Production: Mosfilm
Cast: Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev, Larisa Tarkovskaya, Alla Demidova, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Mykola Hrynko, Yuriy Nazarov, Oleg Yankovskiy, Filipp Yankovsky, Tatyana Reshetnikova, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Mariya Tarkovskaya-Vishnyakova

Overview:

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.

Keywords:

dreams nostalgia world war ii 1940s flashback dream sequence 1930s terminal illness forest russia 1960s historical drama somber 20th century post world war ii memories wind poetry cigarette field spanish civil war (1936-39) dying man avant-garde illness childhood newsreel footage reflection poetry recitation russian history memoirs non-narrative self reflection portrait of an artist dreamlike soviet union history stream of consciousness existentialist experimental film pre war soviet union russian poetry nonlinear narrative voice-over nostalgic memory biographical drama the great patriotic war dying poet