Publisher's Synopsis
Essential guide to the most celebrated Russian filmmaker since Eisenstein, director of the legendary Solaris - the 'Soviet 2001' - and Andrei Rublev, widely regarded as being one of the greatest films of all time. Sean Martin considers the whole of Tarkovsky's oeuvre, starting with the classic student film The Steamroller And The Violin and working across his full-length films to later stage works and writings, paintings and photographs.