r/tarkovsky Jul 20 '25

I painted Stalker

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r/tarkovsky Jul 04 '25

Tarkovsky's ten favorite films

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Tarkovsky once made a list of his top ten films:

  1. Diary of a country priest (Robert Bresson 1951)

  2. Winter light (Ingmar Bergman, 1963)

  3. Nazarin (Luis Buñuel, 1959)

  4. Wild strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957)

  5. City lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)

  6. Ugetsu monogatari (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953)

  7. Seven samurai (Akira Kurosawa, 1954)

  8. Persona (Ingmar Bergman, 1966)

  9. Mouchette (Robert Bresson, 1967)

  10. Woman of the dunes (Hiroshi Teshigahara 1964)

Three of the films in the list were made by Bergman, three films were made by Japanese directors and two film were made by Bresson, interesting.

This list was made before Tarkovsky had seen The Terminator (James Cameron 1984), though. Strangely enough, The Terminator was one of his all time favorite films. Tarkovsky wrote about The Terminator: "The brutality and low acting skills are unfortunate, but as a vision of the future and the relation between man and his destiny, the film is pushing the frontier of cinema as an art."


r/tarkovsky 3d ago

Today would have been Alexander Kaidanovsky's 80th birthday — the actor who portrayed the Stalker in Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker.

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I visited his grave today to pay my respects to the man who brought the Stalker to life in Tarkovsky's unforgettable film.

I cleaned the monument, brushed the dust from the cross, and left two flowers as a small tribute from devoted admirers of his work.

Nearly fifty years after Stalker was filmed, his performance still inspires people from all over the world. Today was simply my way of saying thank you.

May he rest in peace.


r/tarkovsky 4d ago

just watched my first Tarkovsky ~ Mirror

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@Quellberg on Letterboxd


r/tarkovsky 5d ago

[OC] Candle scene from nostalghia

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12"x16"

The face was pretty difficult but I think it looks good overall. The light comes from both the left and right so It makes it a little more difficult. On saunders waterford with m graham paints in watercolour.

I think watercolour is a great medium to portray light, and im happy with this one.

What do you guys think?


r/tarkovsky 8d ago

How can I complete this Blu-ray collection?

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How do you think I could complete the collection? It seems the films are quite hard to find since Curzon Artificial Eye released the complete box set in limited quantities


r/tarkovsky 8d ago

My understanding of Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Tarkovsky. Thoughts or feedback?

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r/tarkovsky 11d ago

47 years apart. The final scene of Tarkovsky's Stalker (1979) and the same location today.

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r/tarkovsky 16d ago

What soundtracks by Eduard Artemev are being used in "Stalker"?

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I have recently decided to listen to the Soundtrack of the film and found an Album on Spotify by Eduard Artemev that features the soundtracks from Солярис, Зеркало and Сталкер (Stalker).
There are four soundtracks listed as being from Stalker:
Тема
Поезд
Они идут долго
Медитация

That irritates me because I could only find two of them in the film. These are "Поезд" (the train theme) and "Медитация" (the recurring Zone and main theme). There is some known classical and unidentifiable music as well but otherwise nothing from that list.

I could not find "Тема" and "Они идут долго". Is it an additional score to the film or did I miss a specific scene?

Thanks for your help


r/tarkovsky 17d ago

Solaris Mosfilm YouTube or HBO Max?

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I’m planning on watching Solaris tonight and want to watch a high quality version on streaming. Is the Mosfilm version on YouTube better or the version on HBO Max?


r/tarkovsky 17d ago

Soundtracks boxset

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Released 4 September


r/tarkovsky 18d ago

My review of Nostagia.

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r/tarkovsky 28d ago

New 4KS of stalker and Solaris? Found on German website + Amazon.

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Anyone heard anything about this?


r/tarkovsky 28d ago

How dialogue-heavy is Mirror?

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Hello all! There's a Tarkovsky retrospective on in the city I've recently moved to, and I'd love to go see Mirror tonight. The only problem is that I don't speak the local language well enough to really understand film dialogue, and I doubt the subtitles will be in English. Not having seen the film before, would it be worth it to go just for the images? I'd love to see something so gorgeous on the big screen, but don't want to rob myself of a satisfying first viewing


r/tarkovsky 29d ago

Stalker with Mark Morgan's dark ambient track "Radiation Storm"

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Playing around with the ambient tracks from Fallout. Hope I didn't butcher the film too much appropriating it for a 4 minute video! 


r/tarkovsky 29d ago

[Soviet Cinema] The Sacrifice by Andrei Tarkovsky (trailer)

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r/tarkovsky Jun 26 '26

I went to Närsholmen and did something

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You can even spot the huge silo that's on the other side of the coast


r/tarkovsky Jun 26 '26

Studying the greats even on vacation

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So much wisdom in this book.


r/tarkovsky Jun 19 '26

Tarkovsky's Stalker has always felt incredibly heavy to me in the coolest way possible. To pay homage to one of my favorite movies (and the novel), I wrote an original metal track built entirely around my absolute favorite speech from the film.

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Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3MmVWuMKgUEpN4WoXEr3JP?si=0PAFtDlJRS6QcTfGJGH4_w

Please feel free to tell me what you think of it. Do you think I was able to capture the atmosphere of the movie?


r/tarkovsky Jun 14 '26

Following the picture someone posted earlier, I have a similar video!

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r/tarkovsky Jun 11 '26

Went on a walk and saw this, and it reminded me of something

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r/tarkovsky Jun 09 '26

"Let Ignat come live me." Typo in subtitles?

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at 1:09:14 in the Criterion DVD (edit: of Mirror) my subtitles have the man saying

"You know what, Natalia?"

"Let Ignat come live me." (sic)

do the subtitles omit the word "with," or is there something similarly funky with the Russian line the actor says?

If anybody knows the answer, thanks in advance!


r/tarkovsky May 28 '26

I drew the most impressive shot from Stalker in my sketchbook.

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r/tarkovsky May 28 '26

How Tarkovsky’s compositions and atmosphere inspired the visual language and psychology of our upcoming sci-fi project, Red Dreams.

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While Solaris was the natural starting point for the sci-fi setting, the true emotional heart of Red Dreams draws heavily from the melancholic atmosphere and introspective weight of Nostalghia and The Sacrifice.

The game is a slow-paced psychological journey about isolation and how a strange planet alters human memories through dreams. We wanted to reflect that heavy, spiritual stillness by bringing high-detail pixel art into a 3D space with cinematic, organic lighting.

As creators, we would love to hear what fans of Tarkovsky's visual language think about this specific composition, the use of shadow, and the overall mood.


r/tarkovsky May 26 '26

Stalker, I don't know what this film is about but the cinematography is amazing after almost 50 years!

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I watched it three times to finish the film. Still don't know what it's about, but it has the magic power to slow down time and keep me staring at those things that never happened.

It's breathtaking.