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Filmmaker · Russia

Andrei Tarkovsky

Died in 1986

Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986), son of the poet Arseny Tarkovsky, studied geology, among other subjects, before entering the Moscow film institute, in the workshop of Mikhail Romm, which he left in 1960. He made seven feature films in all, the first of which won a prize at the Venice festival. Having gone to shoot in Italy, he chose not to return to the Soviet Union and completed his work in Western Europe. He died in Paris in 1986.

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