Zerkalo (1975)

Director:

Andrei Tarkovsky

Writers:

Aleksandr Misharin (writer)
Andrei Tarkovsky (writer)

Release Date:

abril 1975 (Soviet Union)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A man in his forties is going to die and remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments but things that also tell the story of all the Russian nation...

Plot Keywords:

Actress Playing Multiple Roles | Stream Of Consciousness | Actor Playing Multiple Roles | Father | Dream Like

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Is there anything left to say?

Cast

Margarita Terekhova	...	Mother / Natalya
Ignat Daniltsev	...	Ignat / Young Aleksei
Larisa Tarkovskaya	...	Nadezha
Alla Demidova	...	Lisa
Anatoli Solonitsyn	...	Forensic doctor
Tamara Ogorodnikova	...	Nanny / Neighbour / Strange woman at the tea table
Yuri Nazarov	...	Military trainer
Oleg Yankovsky	...	Father
Filipp Yankovsky	...	Aleksei age 5
Yuri Sventisov	...	Yuri Zhary
Tamara Reshetnikova
Innokenti Smoktunovsky	...	Aleksei (voice)
Arseni Tarkovsky	...	Father (voice)
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
L. Correcer
E. Del Bosque
Tatiana Del Bosque
Teresa Del Bosque
Diego García
Nikolai Grinko	...	Director of printery
Alejandro Gutiérrez
Teresa Rames

También conocida como:

Зеркало (Soviet Union: Russian title)
Sarke (Soviet Union: Georgian title)
The Mirror (USA)
White, White Day (English translation of working title)
Espejo, El (Argentina) [es]

Duración:

108 min

País:

Soviet Union

Idioma:

Russian | Español

Color:

Black and White | Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Canada:G (Ontario) | Australia:M | Singapore:PG | Iceland:L | Argentina:13 | Finland:K-12 | West Germany:12 | UK:U | Hong Kong:I

Company:

Mosfilm Unit 4

Trivialidades:

To create the effect of the wind making waves through the crops in the field outside the cabin in the woods, Tarkovsky had two helicopters landed behind the camera and would switch on the rotors when he wanted the wind to start.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Im Laboratorium des Doktor von Trier: Zurück zur Magie des Kinos (1998) (TV)

Soundtrack:

They Tell Us That Your Mighty Powers

Is there anything left to say?

If you have experienced Mirror, and by experience I mean much more than just having watched it (the experience may take multiple viewings to achieve) then you will realise the futility of describing or reviewing this film much in the same way as the inadequacy of a second hand account of a mystical experience.

Tarkovsky was a mystic: although his religious beliefs are well known there is much less acknowledgement of his conception of God. For Tarkovsky God was everywhere and in everything, his (its) presence is felt in the rustling of leaves in the breeze, the burning of wood, the rain falling (and falling, and falling) on damp fields. Humans exist as a sea of melancholy within the infinite beauty and wonder of nature.

Mirror is the closest art has ever been to portraying the mystical experience of one spiritually sensitive individual. The second hand experience can never be as profound as that from your own being. But an odd and sad experience comes from watching Mirror, the belief that your own interpretation of the world will never be so deeply poetic or deep as Tarkovsky's, and the world you see on the cinema screen seems more vivid and alive than real life ever will.