Regi Andrej Tarkovskij (1988)
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Erland Josephson, Andrei Tarkovsky
A documentary follows Andrei Tarkovsky’s meticulous work on his final film, The Sacrifice.
The story
Photographer and cameraman footage supplies the basis for a documentary about the making of Andrei Tarkovsky’s final film, The Sacrifice (Offret). Michal Leszczylowski combines roughly fifty hours of behind-the-scenes material with footage from earlier interviews. The film also incorporates statements about The Sacrifice’s screenplay and Tarkovsky’s book Sculpting in Time, presenting Tarkovsky’s approach to constructing scenes and his vision for the film.
Full plot (contains spoilers)
The photographer and cameraman recorded around fifty hours of behind-the-scenes footage of The Sacrifice (Offret), Andrei Tarkovsky’s last film. Michal Leszczylowski used this material and added footage from earlier interviews, along with interesting statements about the screenplay for The Sacrifice and Tarkovsky’s book Sculpting in Time. The result is a documentary that shows how Tarkovsky worked, carefully constructing each scene, and presents his vision of the film. One sequence reveals Tarkovsky’s great disappointment and emotion as a human being when the camera breaks during the filming of the house in flames.
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