Andrei Tarkovsky

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Andrei Tarkovsky was a renowned Soviet film director and screenwriter celebrated for his poetic, philosophical, and visually meditative cinema, including works like "Andrei Rublev," "Solaris," and "Stalker."


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instanceOf Soviet citizen
actor
film director
film editor
human
screenwriter
awardReceived Cannes Jury Prize
FIPRESCI Prize
Golden Lion
causeOfDeath lung cancer
child Andrei Andreyevich Tarkovsky
countryOfCitizenship Russia
Soviet Union
dateOfBirth 1932-04-04
dateOfDeath 1986-12-29
educatedAt Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography
familyName Tarkovsky
father Arseny Tarkovsky
fieldOfWork cinema
film direction
screenwriting
fullName Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky
gender male
genre art film
drama film
science fiction film
givenName Andrei
influenced Béla Tarr
Lars von Trier
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Theo Angelopoulos
influencedBy Alexander Dovzhenko
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Ingmar Bergman
languageOfWorkOrName Russian
mother Maria Ivanova Vishnyakova
movement art film
poetic cinema
slow cinema
nativeLanguage Russian
notableIdea sculpting in time
notableWork Andrei Rublev
Ivan's Childhood
Mirror
Nostalghia
Solaris
Stalker
The Sacrifice
Voyage in Time
occupation actor
film director
film editor
screenwriter
placeOfBirth Ivanovo Industrial Oblast
Russian SFSR
Zavrazhye
placeOfDeath France
Paris
religion Russian Orthodoxy
residence Florence
Moscow
Paris
spouse Irma Raush
Larisa Tarkovskaya
style long takes
minimal narrative
philosophical reflection
spiritual themes
workLocation Moscow
Rome

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Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Akira Kurosawa
Sergei Eisenstein
influenced
Andrei Tarkovsky ("Andrei Andreyevich Tarkovsky")
child
Mosfilm
collaboratedWith
Andrei Tarkovsky ("Tarkovsky")
familyName
Andrei Tarkovsky ("Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky")
fullName
People's Artist of the USSR
hasNotableRecipient
VGIK
notableAlumnus

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