Andrei Tarkovsky

Tarkovsky expounds on his life and work, the essential importance of fighting, the conceptual nonexistence of happiness, what childhood determines about us, wartime's impact on fantasies, and the salutary effects of a year laboring in Siberia.

An intimate and poetic scene-by-scene look into the filming of Tarkovsky's masterpiece, 'Nostalghia'.

Documentary on the making of "The Sacrifice."

In honor of the twentieth anniversary of Andrei Tarkovsky's death, student filmmaker Dmitry Trakovsky sets out in search of his favorite director's legacy. His journey leads him to fifteen moving interviews in California, Italy, Sweden, and finally, Russia as he attempts to come closer to the meaning of one of Tarkovsky's most enigmatic beliefs... that death doesn't exist.

A documentary made prior to the death of filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, showing him working on his final film "The Sacrifice". This documentation was made at Tarkovsky's request to stand as a record of his working practices. Interspersed with clips of the director's previous films, this should prove especially interesting for fans of Tarkovsky's work.

Acclaimed Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky and his screenwriter Tonino Guerra travel all over Italy to scout locations for the film Nostalghia.

A bunch of stories, portraits and images about people of amazing destinies, including Parajanov and Tarkovsky, merging into a non-traditional and polemic image of Armenia.

A film in homage to Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. It concentrates on his absence from the Soviet Union and what he left behind. There are episodes of his funeral and places he lived in Moscow.

A Dutch documentary about legendary French filmmaker Robert Bresson.

A documentary on the final years of the great director Andrei Tarkovsky while living outside his native USSR and going to an exile on Italy to film "Nostalghia" (1983) and then a visit to a Swedish island to film "The Sacrifice" (1986), released a few months before his death. The film presents interviews with the director, his family and friends, and even includes excerpts from his diary.