The Mirror

The most personal and enigmatic film by Andrei Tarkovsky. The protagonist of the film is painfully afraid of losing the love and understanding of his close ones: his mother, his beloved woman, his son. He feels that life is leading them further away from each other with each passing day.

This film is about the search, childhood impressions suddenly breaking into the life of an adult, the mysticism of everyday life, and attempts to recall the most important things lost amidst daily cares and routine. It is the center of Tarkovsky's career, mature and multi-layered, poetic and prosaic, phantasmagorical and not avoiding documentary. The "captured time," as the director himself defined the very essence of cinematography. The viewer - for the first time or once again - enters the realm of pure magic, which is felt in every frame of "The Mirror."

Participation diploma at the Melbourne International Film Festival (Australia) (1980) and the Prize "David di Donatello" for the best foreign film shown in Italy (1980).