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The Sacrifice
Why this pick
Tarkovsky’s final film shares Mirror’s hushed spiritual intensity, long contemplative takes, elemental imagery, and a family home made uncanny by memory, dread, and private ritual.
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MOVIE1975 1h 46m RUS
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Nostalgia
Why this pick
Its drifting, dreamlike observation and painterly monochrome landscapes extend Mirror’s fusion of inner memory, homesickness, faith, and fragile everyday detail.
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The Ascent
Why this pick
Like Mirror, it filters wartime experience through austere, poetic images and moral emotion, using silence and faces rather than conventional historical spectacle.
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The Color of Pomegranates
Why this pick
A densely visual, non-linear meditation on childhood, art, loss, and cultural memory; its symbolic tableaux offer the same invitation to experience recollection rather than simply follow plot.
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Ivan's Childhood
Why this pick
Tarkovsky’s first feature pairs a child’s fractured wartime consciousness with lyrical nature imagery and dream passages, making it a more concentrated companion to Mirror’s remembered war.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
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.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Oleg Yankovsky
The Father
Alla Demidova
Lisa
Yuriy Nazarov
Military trainer
Margarita Terekhova
Natalya / Maroussia - the Mother
Anatoliy Solonitsyn
Forensic Doctor