Schirmer/Mosel Verlag: Andrey Tarkovsky Films, Stills, Polaroids, and Writings
Schirmer/Mosel Verlag: Andrey Tarkovsky Films, Stills, Polaroids, and Writings
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ANDREY TARKOVSKY
Films, Stills, Polaroids, and Writings
A major monograph of the cult director’s work
With his powerful, poetic, and often disturbing visual worlds Andrey Tarkovsky
ANDREY TARKOVSKY (1932-1986) was a seminal visionary. He is today considered one of the most
Films, Stills, Polaroids & Writings important movie-makers of the 20th century. His masterpieces, such as Stalker or
Edited by Andrey Tarkovsky Jr.,
Hans-Joachim Schlegel Solaris, are classics of Soviet cinema. To protect his work from future censorship,
and Lothar Schirmer
320 pages, 350 illustrations in colour
Tarkovsky never returned to Russia after the completion of Nostalgia, which was
and black and white shot in Tuscany in 1983. His final film, The Sacrifice, was shot in Sweden in 1985,
ISBN 978-3-8296-0627-1 [Engl.]
ISBN 978-3-8296-0587-8 [German] one year before his untimely death at the age of 54.
Retail price EUR 68.-, US $ 90.-
Twenty-six years after his death, and in the year of his 80th birthday,
Schirmer/Mosel is publishing the long-awaited first major monograph of this
artist’s oeuvre. Compiled by Tarkovsky’s son, Andrey Junior, film historian and
critic Hans-Joachim Schlegel, and publisher Lothar Schirmer, this opulent book is a
tribute to the life’s work of this master director.
In 288 breath-taking and incredibly compact film images taken from the film
copies, the key scenes of each film are presented in detail. The expedition through
Tarkovsky’s unique cinematic cosmos is complemented by a wealth of mostly
unpublished material: a rich selection of Tarkovsky’s own writings, private
photographs from the family album, and color Polaroids from his last sojourn in
Russia and the shooting of Nostalgia in Italy reveal new backgrounds and come
closer to Andrey Tarkovsky, the man.
The introductory essay was written by Hans-Joachim Schlegel, the translator and
editor of numerous writings by Tarkovsky. Well-known colleagues and supporters,
among them Jean-Paul Sartre, Ingmar Bergman, and the film maker’s close friend
Alexander Sokurov, comment on Tarkovsky’s work and person. Altogether, it
makes for a many-voiced, visually and intellectually intriguing book that has no
match in today’s film literature.
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