Publisher's Synopsis
Concise, but objectively portrayed biography of a great Russian film director.
Based on literary and visual documents recently published in Russia and author's long-term research on Russian cinema and culture, this book presents little known facts and aspects of Tarkovsky's life and his creation.
Reading this book you can follow, how social, cultural and political situations in the Soviet Union from the 1930s to 1980s had influenced on him, how his belief in Film Art had been formed and what kind of difficulties he had to face in making films and so on. Here is a life of not only a cinematographic genius, but also of a flesh and blood human, who didn't fear his Destiny.
This is an English supplemented and Revised edition of the same title published in Japanese on April 4, 2011. The Japanese first edition was selected by Association of Libraries in Japan as one of the books appropriate for archive in public libraries.
Table of Content
PREFACE TO ENGLISH EDITION
PREFACE TO ENGLISH REVISED EDITION
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I: THE BEGINNING
Preparatory Period for Creation
Awaking to The Beauty of Music
Confusion to The Future
Film School and First Marriage
CHAPTER II: TO THE FILM INDUSTRY
"Thaw" And Awareness of The Mission
Sudden Glory
As One of "The 1960s"
"Collaborators"
The Itinerancy of "Andrei Rublev"
CHAPTER III: ART AND LIFE
The Passion of Andrei I
The Passion of Andrei I I
"The Era of Stagnation" And Prosperity of Film Industry
"Solaris" and Peripeteia of Life
Intersection of Refrection and Creation
Awareness as an Intelligentsia and Isolation
CHAPTER IV: DISILLUSIONMENT AND RELEASE
"The Zone is Life"
Russians in Italy
Reason for Asylum
Release by Faith
AFTERWORD
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