Andrei Tarkovsky

Andrei Tarkovsky was a Soviet and Russian filmmaker whose cinema joined spiritual inquiry with striking attention to memory, nature, and cinematic time. His major films include *Ivan’s Childhood*, *Andrei Rublev*, *Solaris*, *Mirror*, and *Stalker*; after leaving the Soviet Union, he made *Nostalghia* and *The Sacrifice* abroad. He also wrote about film theory in *Sculpting in Time* and directed for the theatre and opera.