Tarkovskiĭ, Andreĭ Arsenʹevich 1932-1986

Solaris by Andreĭ Arsenʹevich Tarkovskiĭ ( Visual )
109 editions published between 1962 and 2011 in 8 languages and held by 1,360 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A psychologist is sent to investigate a series of strange deaths aboard a space station in this classic Russian science fiction film

Andreĭ Rubli︠o︡v strasti po Andrei︠u︡ = Andrei Rublev : the passion according to Andrei by Andreĭ Arsenʹevich Tarkovskiĭ ( Visual )
66 editions published between 1964 and 2011 in 5 languages and held by 1,247 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The perennial question of "artist versus authority", if the loneliness of a genius and his ability to rise above the crowd, the problems of faith and faithlessness are examined through the prism of a life story of the great Russian icon painter Andrei Rublyou. Summary from container insert

Stalker by Andreĭ Arsenʹevich Tarkovskiĭ ( Visual )
119 editions published between 1979 and 2011 in 10 languages and held by 1,167 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In the centre of an industrial wasteland, there appears a mysterious zone where all normal laws of life are suspended

Ivanovo detstvo by Andreĭ Arsenʹevich Tarkovskiĭ ( Visual )
51 editions published between 1960 and 2013 in 5 languages and held by 949 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A 12-year orphan boy works for the Soviet Union's Red Army during World War II, undertaking dangerous reconnaissance missions behind enemy lines

Sculpting in time : reflections on the cinema by Andreĭ Arsenʹevich Tarkovskiĭ ( Book )
45 editions published between 1986 and 2012 in English and held by 841 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"The great Russian filmmaker discusses his art"--Cover

Boris Godunov by Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky ( Visual )
25 editions published between 1990 and 2005 in 4 languages and held by 570 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The action takes place between 1598 and 1605. It concerns the reign of Tsar Boris Godunov who has murdered the Tsarevich Dmitri in order to obtain the succession, and the challenge made to it by the Pretender Dmitri

Nostalghia by Andreĭ Arsenʹevich Tarkovskiĭ ( Visual )
36 editions published between 1983 and 2014 in 5 languages and held by 451 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"A misanthropic poet, Gorchakov is an expatriate in Italy who is researching the life of an exiled Russian composer who committed suicide. Gorchakov finds himself crippled by a melancholy nostalgia for his Russian homeland and memories of his wife and children. At St. Catherine's pool, a sacred site near a Tuscan village, Gorchakov encounters local mystic and pariah, Domenico, who offers Gorchakov a glimpse of redemption through his belief that if one can travel across the pool with a lit candle, one can save all of humanity."-- Container

Offret Sacrificatio = The sacrifice ( Visual )
17 editions published between 1986 and 2011 in 3 languages and held by 413 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"A dark and complex drama about redemption and the nuclear holocaust. When a middle aged intellectual in retirement on an island in the Baltic Sea witnesses signs of what he believes to be a nuclear holocaust, he offers to make the ultimate sacrifice in return for the salvation of mankind."--External container

The mirror by Andreĭ Arsenʹevich Tarkovskiĭ ( Visual )
39 editions published between 1974 and 2011 in 5 languages and held by 291 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Tarkovsky's looking glass is not merely cracked but shattered and we see the jagged, jumbled reflections of its shards, images of Tarkovsky's childhood mixed with fragments of his adult life--a child's wartime exile, a mother's experience with political terror, the breakup of a marriage, life in a country home--all intermingled with slow-motion dream sequences and poetic chunks of stark newsreels

Katok i skripka The steamroller and the violin ( Visual )
4 editions published in 2002 in Russian and held by 286 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
At the center of the film is the unlikely friendship between Sasha, a young boy who loves to play the violin, and Sergey, the macho driver of a steamroller. The film sidesteps sentimentality to give us a warm yet ironic look at two individuals who bridge differences in generations to form a powerful bond