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FILM DIRECTOR

Andrei Tarkovsky

1932 - 1986

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Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (Russian: Андрей Арсеньевич Тарковский, IPA: [ɐnˈdrʲej ɐrˈsʲenʲjɪvʲɪtɕ tɐrˈkofskʲɪj] ru ; 4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) was a Russian film director and screenwriter. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential directors in cinema history, Tarkovsky's 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.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). A number of his films from this period are ranked among the best films ever made. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrei Tarkovsky has received more than 4,722,628 page views. His biography is available in 79 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 72 in 2019). Andrei Tarkovsky is the 15th most popular film director (up from 16th in 2019), the 54th most popular biography from Russia (up from 56th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Film Director.

Andrey Tarkovsky is most famous for his films. He made a lot of them and they are all very different from each other. He was also a photographer and a poet.

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Over the past year Andrei Tarkovsky has had the most page views in the with 722,768 views, followed by Russian (545,190), and Spanish (88,089). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Uzbek (274.15%), Cornish (163.82%), and Hindi (135.60%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Andrei Tarkovsky ranks 15 out of 2,041. Before him are Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, Ridley Scott, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sergei Eisenstein, and Luis Buñuel. After him are Leni Riefenstahl, Wim Wenders, Luchino Visconti, François Truffaut, Sergio Leone, and Jean-Luc Godard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Andrei Tarkovsky ranks 4. Before him are Umberto Eco, Jacques Chirac, and Debbie Reynolds. After him are Elizabeth Taylor, Omar Sharif, François Truffaut, Miloš Forman, Johnny Cash, John Williams, Abebe Bikila, and Peter O'Toole. Among people deceased in 1986, Andrei Tarkovsky ranks 5. Before him are Simone de Beauvoir, Wallis Simpson, Jorge Luis Borges, and Vyacheslav Molotov. After him are Olof Palme, Mircea Eliade, Tenzing Norgay, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Joseph Beuys, Cliff Burton, and Jean Genet.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Andrei Tarkovsky ranks 54 out of 3,761. Before him are Modest Mussorgsky (1839), Boris Pasternak (1890), Mikhail Kalashnikov (1919), Andrei Sakharov (1921), Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844), and Georgy Malenkov (1902). After him are Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1895), Vladimir the Great (958), Alexander Nevsky (1220), Rurik (830), Rudolf Nureyev (1938), and Peter Kropotkin (1842).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Russia

Among film directors born in Russia, Andrei Tarkovsky ranks 1. After him are Konstantin Stanislavski (1863), Nikita Mikhalkov (1945), Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874), Andrei Konchalovsky (1937), Genndy Tartakovsky (1970), Lev Kuleshov (1899), Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893), Leonid Gaidai (1923), Elem Klimov (1933), Eldar Ryazanov (1927), and Ladislas Starevich (1882).

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Filmography

Stalker
Director
Near a gray and unnamed city is the Zone, a place guarded by barbed wire and soldiers, and where the normal laws of physics are victim to frequent anomalies. A stalker guides two men into the Zone, specifically to an area in which deep-seated desires are granted.
May 25o 19798.166 / 10
Solaris
Director
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.
Mar 20o 19727.8 / 10
Mirror
Director
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
Mar 7o 19757.978 / 10