On this day, December 29, 1986, the great Russian director, Andrei Tarkovsky, passed away. Along with Sergei Eisenstein, he was the greatest representative of Soviet cinema and is considered extremely important for his global contribution to the seventh art. But who was this creator?

A look back at the life of…

He was born in 1932 in Zavraye, Russia, with father Arseny Tarkovsky, a well-known poet of the time. He received a brilliant education in the fields of music, sculpture and Arabic. Among other things, he also dealt with geology in Siberia. Being of a more artistic nature, he soon became involved with the film industry and in 1956 began studying at the Moscow film school VGIK. He studied alongside the great director Michael Rom, while his classmate was the Georgian Sergey Paradjanov, who gave the public great cinematic masterpieces in his later career.

Tarkovsky’s first film is essentially his graduation thesis in 1960. It was 46 minutes long and was called “The Fiddler and the Paver”. Two years later, he received international recognition by winning the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival with the film Ivan’s Childhood. The next recognition comes with the film “Andrei Rublev”, which was however banned by the Soviets for two years as it deals with a Christian theme.

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