Andrei Tarkovsky

Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) was a Soviet film director and writer, born in the small town of Zavraje near Moscow. He started his film career in the early sixties, releasing his first feature film Ivan’s Childhood in 1962. Over the span of his career, he directed seven feature films, including Solaris (1972), The Mirror (1975), Stalker (1979) and Nostalghia (1983). In Sculpting in Time, his seminal book on cinema, Tarkovsky reflects on his artistic philosophy, exploring the nature of time in film and the spiritual, poetic qualities of the cinematic image. After leaving the Soviet Union in 1984, he spent his final years in exile in Europe, where he died in Paris in 1986.