Product Description

Tarkovsky's diaries were widely reviewed and considered to be a valuable addition to the Tarkovsky canon. The diaries cover his work in the Soviet Union and the increasing difficulties he encountered there followed by his exile in Europe. They are professional and personal: thoughts on film sit alongside household chores, notes about friends and family. The diaries have been translated by Kitty Hunter-Blair. Andrey Tarkovsky was born in the Soviet Union in 1932 and trained as a film-maker at VGIK under the tutelage of Mikhail Romm. His films made in the Soviet Union include "Rublev" and "Mirror". He left the USSR to live in France and Italy and his other films include "The Sacrifice", "Nostalgia", "Stalker" and "Solaris".

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #110426 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11-01
• Original language: Russian
• Binding: Paperback
• 360 pages

Customer Reviews

tortured soul
I don't often read journals but, as someone who likes to write, I think much can be gleaned form the thought processes of those creative individuals one would like to consider inspirations and perhaps emulate in some way.

These journals provide such incite and in doing so are a window on the wonderfully romantic and tortured soul of Andrey Tarkovski. At points I wanted to cry; ill health, soviet film councils, poverty, fire, all plaques that afflicted this amazing film maker who possessed a single minded vision of the films he strived against all possible adversity to create. Whether in the end his relatively limited output is improved by the above or whether his potential was never fully realised will never be known. He died of lung cancer shortly after creating his 7th film, like his favourite actor Tolya Solonitysn, despite quiting smoking years before.

His films are amazing and these diarys, while greatly flawed in their editorship, are a wonderful incite into the great mans mind and make excellent reading.

O.