MIRROR ZERKALO  Other Titles: MIRROR Director: Andrei TARKOVSKY Release Year: 1974 Production Company: Mosfilm Country: USSR Synopsis: An autobiographical film that considers the interdependence of private and collective memories. Textual layers are interwoven - historical (with the use of newsreel), cultural and oneiric.

Cast: Margarita TEREKHOVA - Alexei's mother/Natalia 
Philip YANKOVSKY - Alexei, aged 5 
Ignat DANILTSEV - Ignat/Alexei, aged 12 
Oleg YANKOVSKY - Father 
Nikolai GRINKO - Man at Printing Shop 
Alla DEMIDOVA - Lisa 
Yuri NAZAROV - Military Instructor 
Anatoli SOLONITSYN - Passer-by 
Innokenty SMOKTUNOVSKY - Voice of Alexei, the Narrator 
L. TARKOVSKAYA - Alexei's Mother, as an old wom 
Tamara OGORODNIKOVA 
Y. SVENTIKOV 
T. RESHETNIKOVA 
E. DEL BOSQUE 
L. CORRECHER 
A. GUTIERRES 
D. GARCIA 
T. PAMES 
Teresa DEL BOSQUE 
Tatiana DEL BOSQUE 

Credits: Andrei TARKOVSKY - Director 
E. WAISBERG - Producer 
Y. KUSHNEREV - Production Manager 
L. TARKOVSKAYA - Assistant Director 
V. KARCHENKO - Assistant Director 
M. CHUGUNOVA - Assistant Director 
Andrei TARKOVSKY - Scriptwriter 
Aleksandr MISHARIN - Scriptwriter 
Georgi RERBERG - Photography 
V. GUSEV - Lighting 
A. NIKOLAEV - Camera Operator 
I. SHTANKO - Camera Operator 
L. FEIGINOVA - Editor 
Nikolai DVIGUBSKY - Art Director 
A. MERKUNOV - Set Designer 
Y. POTAPOV - Special Effects 
Eduard ARTEMIEV - Music 
Johann Sebastian BACH - Music 
Giovanni Battista PERGOLESE - Music 
Henry PURCELL - Music 
N. FOMINA - Costumes 
V. RUDINA - Make-up 
Semyon LITVINOV - Sound 
Peter SEWARD - Subtitles 

Running Time: 106 Film Length: 9548 ft or 2912 mtrs 
Colour Code: Colour & Black/White 
Sound System: Sound 

References : 

• Film und Fernsehen.n1.1990 p.20 lang.GER.illus - Review 
  Film Quarterly.v43.n2.Winter 1989/90 p.28-34 lang.ENG - Article looking at the dream imagery in Andrei Tarkovsky's films, particularly ZERKALO and STALKER. 
  Listener.v107.n2747.11 Feb 1982 p.oi lang.ENG -Gavin Miller comments on the film. 
  Monthly Film Bulletin.v47.n556.May 1980 p.101 lang.ENG - Addenda. 
  Listener.v103.n2659.24 Apr 1980 p.553-k54 lang.ENG -Review 
  Time Out.n522.18 Apr 1980 p.33 lang.ENG -Caption review. 
  Sight and Sound.v49.n2.Spring 1980 p.spring 123-124 lang.ENG -Review 
  Cineforum.n193.April 1980 p.203-211,252 lang.ITA -Review 
  Monthly Film Bulletin.v47.n554.March 1980 p.54-55 lang.ENG -Review 
  Cinematographe.n35.February 1978 p.25-27 lang.FRE -Interview with director. 
  Cinematographe.n35.February 1978 p.28-29 lang.FRE -Interview with director. 
  LumiŠre du Cin‚ma.n11.Jan/Feb 1978 p.42-45 lang.FRE -Review 
  Cinemateca Revista.n3.October 1977 p.4 lang.SPA -Review 
  Variety.2 Feb 1977 p.24 lang.ENG -Review 
  Sight and Sound.v45.n2.Spring 1976 p.92-95 lang.ENG -Review 
  Film (BFFS).n27.Jan/Feb 1961 p.8-9 lang.ENG -Article supplied 
  by Novosti Press Agency. 
  Soviet Film.n3.1957 p.16-17 lang.ENG -Review 

Links:
The INTERNET MOVIE DATABASE about MIRROR (external link)