Andrey Tarkovsky

Soviet theater and film director, screenwriter.

Tarkovsky had a significant impact on world cinema. His films Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1972), The Mirror (1974) and Stalker (1979) are periodically included in the lists of the best films of all time.

Tarkovsky's work is a significant and unusual phenomenon of world culture. His films form a cycle about the sufferings and hopes of a man who has taken on the burden of moral responsibility for the whole world. Tarkovsky's conceptual and artistic solutions are distinguished by originality and depth.