Ivan’s Childhood: Dreams of Mother
Nikolai Burlyayev. Photo: Mosfilm Sometimes you wonder whatever happened to a successful child actor. In far too many cases, their lives didn’t turn out so great, perhaps haunted by what…
Andrei Rublev: Before the Tsars
Photo: Mosfilm Andrei Tarkovsky’s wildly ambitious second film was shown in a cinema in 1966. The audience seemed to like it, but the Soviet censors refused to approve the epic…
Stalker: Secrets of the Zone
Photo: Goskino Andrei Tarkovsky’s crew found a grim place to shoot the scenes inside the film’s mystical Zone – two deserted hydro power plants just outside Tallinn. There had also…
Solaris: Journey of the Mind
Donatas Banionis. Photo: Mosfilm He’s admired now, but in the late 1960s Andrei Tarkovsky wasn’t doing so well. His second film, Andrei Rublev, had not been released due to controversial…