The Mirror, also known as Mirror or Zerkalo (Russian: Зеркало), is a 1975 Mosfilm's movie by Andrei Tarkovsky, which has spawned a cult following among Soviet intellectuals. Image File history File links Zerkalo. ... “Tarkovsky” redirects here. ... “Tarkovsky” redirects here. ... Eduard Nikolayevitch Artemyev (born 1937) is a Russian composer of electronic music. ... “Bach” redirects here. ... Georgy Ivanovich Rerberg (Russian: , September 28, 1937, Moscow, Soviet Union, – July 28, 1999, Moscow, Russia) was a Russian cinematographer, noted for his work on Andrey Tarkovskys Zerkalo. ... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... // January 28 - George Lucas creates the second draft of what would eventually become Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. ... Mosfilm logo was the Statue of the Worker and Kolkhoznitsa at VDNKh Mosfilm film studio (in Cyrillic, Мосфи́льм) is often described as the largest and oldest in Russia and in Europe. ... “Tarkovsky” redirects here. ... A cult film is a film that has acquired a highly devoted but relatively small group of fans. ... Soviet redirects here. ...

The movie is autobiographical, with some poems by Tarkovsky's father recited at various points in the film, and his mother's voice is heard. The film rhythmically blends contemporary scenes with scenes of childhood and newsreel footage. It has no apparent plot, and its loose flow of visually oneiric "dream art" images was compared to the "stream of consciousness" technique in literature. Cover of the first English edition of 1793 of Benjamin Franklins autobiography. ... Arseny Alexandrovich Tarkovsky (Russian: , June 25 [O.S. June 12] 1907– May 27, 1989 ) was a prominent Russian poet. ... A newsreel is a documentary film that is regularly released in a public presentation place containing filmed news stories. ... Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes: The Dream, 1883 Dream art is any form of art directly based on material from dreams, or which employs dream-like imagery. ... In literary criticism, stream of consciousness is a literary technique that seeks to portray an individuals point of view by giving the written equivalent of the characters thought processes, either in a loose interior monologue, or in connection to his or her sensory reactions to external occurrences. ...

Innokenty Smoktunovsky provides the voice of the unseen narrator; Margarita Terekhova plays both his mother and wife; Alla Demidova appears as her friend, while Oleg Yankovsky and his 4-year-old son Philip make brief but memorable appearances as the narrator's father and son, respectively. Smoktunovsky as Hamlet in the 1964 movie. ... Margarita Terekhova (Russian: , b. ... Alla Demidova in The Tuner (2005). ... Oleg I. Yankovsky Oleg Ivanovich Yankovsky (Russian: ; b. ...

Tarkovsky originally intended that the film be entitled Confession, a reference to a line of his father's poetry. Tarkovsky's original penned script blends three different story elements: interviews with his mother, occurrences from his upbringing, and newsreel footage. The content of the film was not well received by Soviet authorities and Tarkovsky was not given a green light to begin production.

Tarkovsky, lacking permission to begin shooting Mirror, began work on Solaris. He did not fight very hard for what was to become the Mirror project; however, within his diaries (published posthumously) Tarkovsky relates his desire to finish Solaris and renew his efforts on Mirror. Because of Tarkovsky's increasing reputation in the international film community, Soviet officials eventually allowed the film to begin shooting. Upon completion, however, there was a good deal of controversy surrounding the film, as the very person, Filip Yermash, who allowed Tarkovsky to shoot Mirror was quoted in saying after the screening , "We have freedom of creativity in cinema, but not to this degree". Upon seeing the screening Yermash refused to allow the film to be distributed, Tarkovsky writes in his diary on August 1, 1974. At the end of Tarkovsky's aforementioned diary entry, it is important to note his eighth and final bullet point: "ask permission through Goskino to go abroad for two years to make a film there, without compromising myself ideologically". Ostensibly we can see Tarkovsky's growing need to extradite himself from the USSR where his artistic ideals would not be compromised.

Despite the reaction Mirror receives from the authorities, its complex yet simultaneously simple structure, make it one of Tarkovsky's most difficult films, as well as his most personal. This film is often considered Tarkovsky's magnum opus, indicating Tarkovsky's seeming refusal to suppress any of his own ideologies to appease official Soviet ideology.

Trivia

• Wintertime scenes in the Mirror echo Bruegel's paintings Winter Landscape with a Bird Trap and The Hunters in the Snow.
• A recitative from Johan Sebastian Bach's Matthäuspassion, ("Und siehe da! Der Vorhang im Tempel...") features in the score, and the opening chorus from Johannes Passion ("Herr, unser Herrscher, dessen Ruhm in allen Landen herrlich ist!") accompanies the film's memorable closing scene.
• Another Bach's work used in this movie is "Das Alte Jahr Vergangen Ist" Chorale (BWV 614) from Orgelbuchlein

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The making of The Mirror

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Further reading

• Tarkovsky, Andrei, Tarkovsky the Diaries 1970-1986, Seagull Books Private Limited, Calcutta 1991
• Johnson, Vidat and Petrie, Graham, The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue, Indiana University Press, Bloomington & Indianapolis, 1994

External links

• The Mirror at the Internet Movie Database
• Tarkovsky on Mirror at Nosthalgia.com
• The Mirror's timeline unraveled
• Four poems of Arseny Tarkovsky (recited in the movie)

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