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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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrei Tarkovsky has received more than 4,790,451 page views. His biography is available in 72 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 71 in 2019). Andrei Tarkovsky is the 16th most popular film director (down from 14th in 2019), the 56th most popular biography from Russia (down from 48th 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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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Andrei Tarkovsky ranks 16 out of 1,581. Before him are Ridley Scott, Sergei Eisenstein, Roman Polanski, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Luchino Visconti, and Luis Buñuel. After him are Jean-Luc Godard, Sergio Leone, Francis Ford Coppola, François Truffaut, Miloš Forman, and Georges Méliès.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Andrei Tarkovsky ranks 7. Before him are Umberto Eco, Jacques Chirac, Luc Montagnier, Debbie Reynolds, Elizabeth Taylor, and Omar Sharif. After him are François Truffaut, Miloš Forman, Johnny Cash, John Williams, Cesare Maldini, and Abebe Bikila. Among people deceased in 1986, Andrei Tarkovsky ranks 6. Before him are Simone de Beauvoir, Wallis Simpson, Jorge Luis Borges, Olof Palme, and Vyacheslav Molotov. After him are Cary Grant, Frank Herbert, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Mircea Eliade, Tenzing Norgay, and Joseph Beuys.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Andrei Tarkovsky ranks 56 out of 3,262. Before him are David Hilbert (1862), Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (1895), Vladimir the Great (958), Boris Godunov (1552), Sergey Lavrov (1950), and Gustav Kirchhoff (1824). After him are Rurik (830), Stanislav Petrov (1939), Georg Cantor (1845), Feodor I of Russia (1557), Vasily Zaitsev (1915), and Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia (1904).

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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), Andrei Konchalovsky (1937), Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874), Nikita Mikhalkov (1945), Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893), Lev Kuleshov (1899), Leonid Gaidai (1923), Eldar Ryazanov (1927), Elem Klimov (1933), Ladislas Starevich (1882), and Yuri Norstein (1941).

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Filmography

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