The most significant figure in all of postwar Soviet cinema, Andrei Tarkovsky died in 1986 at age 54, leaving behind only seven features, the first five produced in the Soviet Union and the last two ...

A new 4k restoration of Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1986 film “The Sacrifice” starts Feb. 2 at the Nuart. This is an excerpt from a review published Dec. 22, 1986. The restored version of Tarkovsky’s 1979 film ...

Widely considered the greatest Russian director since Eisenstein, Andrei Tarkovsky’s relatively brief career as a director produced several classics of world cinema such as Andrei Rublev, Solaris, ...

Nothing could be less fashionable than ”The Sacrifice,” a film that runs 2 hours and 40 minutes, is spoken in a foreign language and is full of abstract philosophical discussions and obscure symbols.

In 1985 and 86, as 54-year-old filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky was dying of lung cancer, he managed to complete The Sacrifice, one of his finest works. Tarkovsky’s career began in his home country, the ...

Andrei Tarkovsky's last film, "The Sacrifice," takes a spiritual and contemplative approach to the end of the world. (Kino Lorber) 7 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Jan. 2-3; 4 p.m., Sunday, Jan. 4; Northwest ...

After a gorgeous restoration of his landmark existential sci-f film Stalker earlier this year, another Andrei Tarkovsky masterpiece has been remastered and is coming to theaters. The director’s final ...

The Russian philosophical humanist Andrei Tarkovsky was Ingmar Bergman’s favorite filmmaker. In 1985, Tarkovsky made — at Bergman’s invitation — essentially a Bergman film: “The Sacrifice” was shot in ...

Upon its release 28 years ago, Andrei Tarkovsky’s final film, The Sacrifice, was variously called “stunningly beautiful” and “impossible to sit through” by critics. It is both. Tarkovsky’s ...

Many filmmakers have created visions of the apocalypse and World War III. The great Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky did, in 1986. His film will be shown at Cinestudio in Hartford Feb. 18 to 21. “The ...