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Release: September 25, 2018

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Tracing the life of a renowned icon painter, the second feature by Andrei Tarkovsky vividly conjures the murky world of medieval Russia. This dreamlike and remarkably tactile film follows Andrei Rublev as he passes through a series of poetically linked scenes—snow falls inside an unfinished church, naked pagans stream through a thicket during a torchlit ritual, a boy oversees the clearing away of muddy earth for the forging of a gigantic bell—gradually emerging as a man struggling mightily to preserve his creative and religious integrity. Appearing here in the director’s preferred 185-minute cut as well as the version that was originally suppressed by Soviet authorities, the masterwork Andrei Rublev is one of Tarkovsky’s most revered films, an arresting meditation on art, faith, and endurance. SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES • New 2K digital restoration of the director’s preferred 185-minute cut, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack • New 2K digital transfer of the original 205-minute version of the film, The Passion According to Andrei • Steamroller and Violin, Tarkovsky’s 1961 student thesis film • The Three Andreis, a 1966 documentary about the writing of the film’s script • On the Set of “Andrei Rublev,” a 1966 documentary about the making of the film • New interviews with actor Nikolai Burlyaev and cinematographer Vadim Yusov by filmmakers Seán Martin and Louise Milne • New interview with film scholar Robert Bird • Selected-scene commentary from 1998 featuring film scholar Vlada Petric • New video essay by filmmaker Daniel Raim • New English subtitle translation • PLUS: An essay by critic J. Hoberman

Release: July 6, 2021

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A subtly ravishing passage through the halls of time and memory, this sublime reflection on twentieth-century Russian history by Andrei Tarkovsky (Stalker) is as much a poem composed in images, or a hypnagogic hallucination, as it is a work of cinema. In a richly textured collage of varying film stocks and newsreel footage, the recollections of a dying poet flash before our eyes, his dreams mingling with scenes of childhood, wartime, and marriage, all imbued with the mystical power of a trance. Largely dismissed by Soviet critics on its release because of its elusive narrative structure, Mirror has since taken its place as one of the director’s most renowned and influential works, a stunning personal statement from an artist transmitting his innermost thoughts and feelings directly from psyche to screen. TWO-BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack Andrei Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer, a 2019 documentary about the director by his son Andrei A. Tarkovsky The Dream in the Mirror, a new documentary by Louise Milne and Seán Martin New interview with composer Eduard Artemyev Islands: Georgy Rerberg, a 2007 documentary about the cinematographer Archival interviews with Tarkovsky and screenwriter Alexander Misharin New English subtitle translation PLUS: An essay by critic Carmen Gray and, for the Blu-ray, the 1968 film proposal and literary script by Tarkovsky and Misharin that they ultimately developed into Mirror

Release: April 23, 2024

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The first film made outside his native Russia by director Andrei Tarkovsky is a hauntingly beautiful portrait of a Russian poet and musicologist who travels to a spa village in Italy's Tuscany region on a research project. Even as he longs to return to his homeland and his family, the poet is drawn to his lovely interpreter and fascinated with a local professor-turned-mystic. Oleg Yankovskiy, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano star. 125 min LANGUAGE In Italian with English subtitles.

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A homesick Russian poet travels through Italy and becomes entangled in another man's mystical obsession.

Release: May 15, 2018

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Andrei Tarkovsky’s final masterpiece, The Sacrifice (1986) is a haunting vision of a world threatened with nuclear annihilation. As a wealthy Swedish family celebrates the birthday of their patriarch Alexander (Erland Josephson, Cries and Whispers), news of the outbreak of World War III reaches their remote Baltic island — and the happy mood turns to horror. The family descends into a state of psychological devastation, brilliantly evoked by Tarkovsky’s arresting palette of luminous grays washing over the bleak landscape around their home. The film’s masterful cinematography is by Sven Nykvist, Ingmar Bergman’s longtime collaborator. Made as he was dying of cancer, The Sacrifice is Tarkovsky’s closing artistic testament, a profoundly moving, redemptive tragedy steeped in unforgettable imagery and heart-wrenching emotion. Special Features: "Booklet with excerpts from Andrei Tarkovsky’s diaries and an essay by film scholar Robert Bird |Disc One: Audio commentary by Layla Alexander-Garrett, Andrei Tarkovksy’s translator on the set of THE SACRIFICE | Trailer | Disc Two: DIRECTED BY ANDREI TARKOVSKY, a documentary on the making of THE SACRIFICE (102 minutes) | Interview with Michał Leszczyłowski, editor of THE SACRIFICE and director of DIRECTED BY ANDREI TARKOVSKY"

Release: February 4, 2025

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This foreboding and unforgettable tale of life on the brink of a potential nuclear disaster was the final work of director Andrei Tarkovsky and the winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes. As World War III appears imminent, the patriarch of a wealthy Swedish family makes a promise to God that he will give up everything-and everyone-he holds dear if the coming conflict can be averted. Erland Josephson, Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall star; cinematography by Sven Nykvist. 148 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: Swedish, English, French; Subtitles: English; audio commentary; interview; theatrical trailers; documentary "Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky" (1988). In Swedish, English, and French with English subtitles. Two-disc set.

Release: May 24, 2011

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A Soviet psychologist probes the unknown at a space station on a strange planet. Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky.

Release: July 18, 2017

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Andrei Tarkovsky s final Soviet feature is a metaphysical journey through an enigmatic postapocalyptic landscape, and a rarefied cinematic experience like no other. A hired guide the Stalker leads a writer and a scientist into the heart of the Zone, the restricted site of a long-ago disaster, where the three men eventually zero in on the Room, a place rumored to fulfill one s most deeply held desires. Adapting a science-fiction novel by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Tarkovsky created an immersive world with a wealth of material detail and a sense of organic atmosphere. A religious allegory, a reflection of contemporaneous political anxieties, a meditation on film itself Stalker envelops the viewer by opening up a multitude of possible meanings. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES - New 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack - New interview with Geoff Dyer, author of Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room - Interview from 2002 with cinematographer Alexander Knyazhinsky - Interview from 2002 with set designer Rashit Safiullin - Interview from 2002 with composer Eduard Artemyev - New English subtitle translation - More! - PLUS: An essay by critic Mark Le Fanu