Film

Arseny Tarkovsky: Eternal Presence

2004 · 1h 54m · Documentary

"Poetic documentary about the prominent Russian poet Arseny Tarkovsky (1907/1989), father of director Andrei Tarkovsky. Arseny Tarkovsky translated countless poems from Georgian, Arabic, Armenian, Kyrghyz, Polish etc., but many of his own poems were also translated into other languages. The maker of the documentary, Viatcheslav Amirchanian, cared for Arseny Tarkovsky in the last years of the poet's life, shot many hours of film in that period, took countless photographs and, years later, he combined this with other material to form this documentary. Tarkovsky Sr, who was admired by colleagues such as Joseph Brodsky, Anna Achmatova and Marina Cvetaeva, was never published during the Stalin era, even though he had lost a leg as a soldier at the front. His first book (Before the Snow) only appeared in 1962 during the thaw under Khrushchev." - IFFR

Arseny Tarkovsky

Himself (archive footage)

• Viacheslav AmirhanianDirector
• Sergey YurizditskiyDirector of Photography

Release date

January 28, 2004

Status

Released

Original language

Russian

Runtime

1h 54m

Genres

Documentary