Andrei Tarkovsky Biography (1932-1986)

Born April 4, 1932, in Zawrashje, Iwanowo, Russia; died of cancer, December 28, 1986, in Paris, France; son of Arseniy Tarkovsky (a poet); married Irma Rauch, 1960 (divorced 1963); married Larisa Tarkovskaya, 1964; children: (firstmarriage) two children; (second marriage) Andrei. Career: Director, screenwriter, editor, production designer, and actor. Worked as geological prospector, Siberia, 1954-56. Awards, Honors: Venice Film Festival, Lionof St. Mark Award, best film, 1962, for Ivan's Childhood; Cannes FilmFestival, International Critics Award, 1969, for Andrei Rublev; CannesFilm Festival, Grand Prize of the Jury Award, 1972, for Solaris; Merited Artistic Worker of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic (RSFSR), 1974; Cannes Film Festival, Grand Prize of the Jury Award, best screenplay, 1983, for Nostalghiya; Cannes Film Festival Award, Prize for First Work-Full Length Films, 1983; Cannes Film Festival, Grand Prix, 1986, for The Sacrifice; Cannes Film Festival, Grand Prize of the Jury Award, 1986,for Offret; British Academy Film and Television Arts Award, best foreign language film, 1988, for Offret..

Nationality: Russian
Gender: Male
Occupation: Director, screenwriter, editor, designer, actor
Birth Details: April 4, 1932; Zawrashje, Iwanowo, Russia
Death Details: December 28, 1986; Paris, France

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Work
Director, Unless Noted Otherwise
Ubiitski (also known as The Killers), 1958
Kontsentrat, 1958
There Will Be No Leave Today (also known as Segodnia uvolneniiane budet; short), 1959
Katok i skripka (also known as The Steamroller and the Violin, The Skating Rink and the Violin, and Violin and Roller), 1960
Ivanovo detstvo (also known as Ivan's Childhood, Childhood of Ivan, My Name is Ivan, and The Youngest Spy), 1962
Andrei Rublev (also known as Andrej Rublijov and The Passion According to Saint Andrew), 1969
Solyaris (also known as Solaris), Sci-Fi Pictures, Inc./Magna Distribution Corp., 1971
Zerkalo (also known as The Mirror and White, White Day), 1975
And production designer, Stalker, 1979
Nostalghia (also known as Nostalgia), 1983
And editor, Offret (also known as Offret-Sacrificato, The Sacrifice and The Witch), Sandrews, 1986
Film Appearances
Mne Dvadtsat Let (also known as I am Twenty), 1964
Himself, De weg naar Bresson (also known as The Road to Bresson), 1984

Andrei Takovsky, 1984
Himself, Gruppa Tovariscej, 1988
Himself, Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, 1988
Himself, The Exile and Death of Andrei Tarkovsky, 1989
Television Work
Director
Directed Tempo di viaggio, 1983.
Stage Work
Director, Boris Godunov (opera), Covent Garden, London, 1983
Also directed a production of Hamlet, 1976.
WRITINGS
Screenplays
Katok i skripka (also known as The Steamroller and the Violin, The Skating Rink and the Violin, and Violin and Roller), 1960
Andrei Rublev (also known as Andrej Rublijov and The Passion According to Saint Andrew), 1969
Solyaris (also known as Solaris), Sci-Fi Pictures, Inc./Magna Distribution Corp., 1971
Zerkalo (also known as The Mirror and White, White Day), 1975
Stalker, 1979
Nostalghia (also known as Nostalgia), 1983
Offret (also known as Offret-Sacrificato, The Sacrifice and The Witch), Sandrews, 1986
Nonfiction
Andrei Rublev, Paris, 1970
Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema, London, 1986rev. ed.1989
Also contributed to such periodicals as Sight and Sound.

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Books:

Le Fanu, Mark, The Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky, London, 1987.
Leszcylowski, Michal, Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986.
Turovskaya, a, Tarkovsky: Cinema as Poetry, London, 1989.
Directors: International Dictionary of Films and Filmakers-2, St.James Press, Chicago, IL, 1991.

Periodicals:

Cineaste, October 1994, p. 55.
Film Criticism, Spring 1984.
Journal of European Studies, September 1993, p. 351.
The New York Times, December 30, 1986, .
Sight and Sound, Spring 1973; Summer, 1981; Spring 1987; Autumn 1987.

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