He was described by childhood friends as active and popular, having many friends and being typically in the center of action. Tarkovsky spent his childhood in Yuryevets. Īccording to the family legend, Tarkovsky's ancestors on his father's side were princes from the Shamkhalate of Tarki, Dagestan, although his sister Marina Tarkovskaya who did a detailed research on their genealogy called it "a myth, even a prank of sorts," stressing that none of the documents confirms this version. She was married to Ivan Ivanovich Vishnyakov, a native of the Kaluga Governorate who studied law at the Moscow State University and served as a judge in Kozelsk. Andrei's maternal grandmother Vera Nikolayevna Vishnyakova (née Dubasova) belonged to an old Dubasov family of Russian nobility that traces its history back to the 17th century among her relatives was Admiral Fyodor Dubasov, a fact she had to conceal during the Soviet days. His wife Maria Danilovna Rachkovskaya was a Romanian language teacher who arrived from Iași. Life and career Childhood and early life Īndrei Tarkovsky was born in the village of Zavrazhye in the Yuryevetsky District of the Ivanovo Industrial Oblast (modern-day Kadyysky District of the Kostroma Oblast, Russia) to the poet and translator Arseny Aleksandrovich Tarkovsky, a native of Yelysavethrad (now Kropyvnytskyi, Ukraine), and Maria Ivanova Vishnyakova, a graduate of the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute who later worked as a corrector she was born in Moscow in the Dubasov family estate.Īndrei's paternal grandfather Aleksandr Karlovich Tarkovsky (in Polish: Aleksander Karol Tarkowski) was a Polish nobleman who worked as a bank clerk.
1.4 Film career outside the Soviet Union.Three of his films- Andrei Rublev, Mirror, and Stalker-featured in Sight & Sound 's 2012 poll of the 100 greatest films of all time. In 1990, he was posthumously awarded the Soviet Union's prestigious Lenin Prize. Tarkovsky was the recipient of several awards at the Cannes Film Festival throughout his career (including the FIPRESCI prize, the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, and the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury) and winner of the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival for his debut film Ivan's Childhood. There is still debate if the cancer was caused by the locations used during the filming of Stalker. In 1986, he also published a book about cinema and art entitled Sculpting in Time. After years of creative conflict with state film authorities, Tarkovsky left the country in 1979 and made his final two films abroad Nostalghia (1983) and The Sacrifice (1986) were produced in Italy and Sweden respectively. A number of his films from this period are ranked among the best films ever made. Tarkovsky studied film at Moscow's VGIK under filmmaker Mikhail Romm, and subsequently directed his first five features in the Soviet Union: Ivan's Childhood (1962), Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1972), Mirror (1975), and Stalker (1979). Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time, his films explore spiritual and metaphysical themes, and are noted for their slow pacing and long takes, dreamlike visual imagery, and preoccupation with nature and memory. Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (Russian: Андрей Арсеньевич Тарковский, IPA: 4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) was a Soviet Russian film director, screenwriter, and film theorist.
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