Trailer for Documentary MEETING ANDREI TARKOVSKY
This is the first trailer for “Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky” from director Dmitry Trakovsky. The documentary explores an enigmatic belief: that death doesn’t exist.
Structurally, this film narrates through a series of interviews that gradually take me from Los Angeles to rural Russia. In Florence, for instance, Andrei Andreevich Tarkovsky shares candid memories of his father. In Stockholm, I speak with Erland Josephson, one of Sweden’s most renowned actors, who reminisces about the director and the making of his only Scandinavian film, The Sacrifice (1986). Other interviews offer a plethora of perspectives on the director and his continuing presence today.
My travels come to an end in the forgotten city of Yurevets, where Andrei spent parts of his childhood, including the years during WWII. As I wander the empty streets of this distant town, the mystery that this film attempts to unravel yields a final epiphany…
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