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1975

Sight and Sound 2022: Critics' Poll — No. 31Sight and Sound 2022: Directors' Poll — No. 8

Director:

Andrei Tarkovsky

Studio:

Mosfilm

Starring:

Margarita Terekhova, Ignat Daniltsev, Larisa Tarkovskaya, Alla Demidova, Anatoly Solonitsyn

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A dying poet looks back on his life, and the film moves between his childhood memories of the war years in the countryside, his troubled relationship with his ex-wife and son, and Soviet newsreel footage. The same actress plays both his mother and his wife.