Stars: Nikolay Burlyaev, Evgeniy Zharikov, Valentin Zubkov, Valentina Malyavina | Written by Vladimir Bogomolov, Mikhail Papava | Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
If Solaris was Andrei Tarkovsky’s answer to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey then Ivan’s Childhood could be his answer to Kubrick’s Fear and Desire. Both were feature debuts concerning war-haunted soldiers waxing philosophical on some forgotten riverbank. The difference is that the Russian auteur’s is the vastly more accomplished film – to the extent that it would go on to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
Tarkovsky’s 1962 drama opens with Ivan (Nikolay Burlyaev) as a blonde angelic child, prancing in nature. Khachaturian’s music is whimsical, and there’s an air of innocent fantasy as Ivan begins to fly. He sees his mother – at which point he wakes in fright. He’s back in the war, hair matted and face blackened. The...
If Solaris was Andrei Tarkovsky’s answer to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey then Ivan’s Childhood could be his answer to Kubrick’s Fear and Desire. Both were feature debuts concerning war-haunted soldiers waxing philosophical on some forgotten riverbank. The difference is that the Russian auteur’s is the vastly more accomplished film – to the extent that it would go on to win the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
Tarkovsky’s 1962 drama opens with Ivan (Nikolay Burlyaev) as a blonde angelic child, prancing in nature. Khachaturian’s music is whimsical, and there’s an air of innocent fantasy as Ivan begins to fly. He sees his mother – at which point he wakes in fright. He’s back in the war, hair matted and face blackened. The...
- 1/30/2018
- by Rupert Harvey
- Nerdly
On what would be his 80th birthday, we take a look back at Andrei Tarkovsky and his profound mark on cinema.
“The director’s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the truth he has seen, even if not everyone finds that truth acceptable. Of course an artist can lose his way, but even his mistakes are interesting provided they are sincere. For they represent the reality of his inner life, of the peregrinations and struggle into which the external world has thrown him.” ― Andrei Tarkovsky
As a young man, filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky visited a gypsy to have his fortune told, specifically, about his cinematic future. She bluntly told him he would only live to make seven films, but that each one would be an important and cherished work. The details surrounding this urban legend...
“The director’s task is to recreate life, its movement, its contradictions, its dynamic and conflicts. It is his duty to reveal every iota of the truth he has seen, even if not everyone finds that truth acceptable. Of course an artist can lose his way, but even his mistakes are interesting provided they are sincere. For they represent the reality of his inner life, of the peregrinations and struggle into which the external world has thrown him.” ― Andrei Tarkovsky
As a young man, filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky visited a gypsy to have his fortune told, specifically, about his cinematic future. She bluntly told him he would only live to make seven films, but that each one would be an important and cherished work. The details surrounding this urban legend...
- 4/4/2012
- by jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
- The Film Stage
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