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About
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
Theatrical
Aug 17, 1983
Box Office
$124K
Budget
$825K
Return
0.2x
Theaters
2
Director
Producer
Music
Studio
Mosfilm
Original Title
Зеркало
Original Language
Russian
Keywords
poetry
dreams
wind
world war ii
cigarette
field
spanish civil war (1936-39)
nostalgia
forest
terminal illness
dying man
flashback
avant-garde
illness
childhood
post world war ii
dream sequence
newsreel footage
reflection
poetry recitation
russian history
historical drama
memoirs
1940s
1960s
non-narrative
somber
self reflection
1930s
portrait of an artist
dreamlike
russia
soviet union history
memories
stream of consciousness
existentialist
20th century
experimental film
pre war soviet union
russian poetry
nonlinear narrative
voice-over
nostalgic memory
Cast
Full credits →M
Margarita Terekhova
Natalya / Maroussia - the Mother
L
Larisa Tarkovskaya
Nadezha
A
Alla Demidova
Lisa
A
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Forensic Doctor
M
Mykola Hrynko
Printery Director
T
Tamara Ogorodnikova
Nanny / Neighbour / Strange Woman at Tea Table
Y
Yuriy Nazarov
Rifle Shooting Instructor
O
Oleg Yankovskiy
The Father
F
Filipp Yankovsky
Aleksei - 5 Years Old
T
Tatyana Reshetnikova
Proofreader in Printing House
I
Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
Narrator - The Author's Words (voice)
A
Arseny Tarkovsky
Narrator - His Own Poems (voice)
Á
Ángel Gutiérrez
Spanish Refugee
A
Aleksandr Misharin
Doctor
