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* GainaxEnding: Even allowing for the fact that Tarkovsky intended the film to depict Alexei's deathbed dreams and reminiscences (hence the stream-of-consciousness "narrative"), the ending is... odd. The final sequence is set in the countryside of Alexei's childhood as both old and young versions of Maria appear in the same scene, the former leading Alexei and his sister (as children) away and the latter several months pregnant, all while the opening chorus of Bach's ''St. John Passion'' ''Music/StJohnPassion'' blares on the soundtrack. Eventually, the music finishes, the camera tracks back into the surrounding forest... and we fade to black.
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The film never officially premiered due to UsefulNotes/GosKino complaints, but was released on DVD and subsequently welcomed into the Tarkovsky oeuvre.
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The film never officially premiered due to UsefulNotes/GosKino complaints, complaints from [[CensorshipBureau Goskino USSR]], but was released on DVD and subsequently welcomed into the Tarkovsky oeuvre.
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It is best to describe the film as the thoughts, dreams and recollections of Alexei (Ignat Daniltsev) and his son Ignat (Ignat Daniltsev) about his mother Maria (Margarita Terekhova) and wife Natalia (Margarita ([[ActingForTwo both played by]] Margarita Terekhova). These memories stretch from the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Great Patriotic War]] to the present day. In what has been described as a cinematic equivalent to a stream of consciousness, the film is conveyed through contemporary scenes, newsreel footage, and poems written and read by Tarkovsky's father Arseny, its cinematography switching between color, black-and-white, and sepia.
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It is best to describe it the film as the thoughts, dreams and recollections of Alexei (Ignat Daniltsev) and his son Ignat (Ignat Daniltsev) about his mother Maria (Margarita Terekhova) and wife Natalia (Margarita Terekhova). These memories stretch from the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Great Patriotic War]] to the present day. In what has been described as a cinematic equivalent to a stream of consciousness, the film is conveyed through contemporary scenes, newsreel footage, and poems written and read by Tarkovsky's father Arseny, its cinematography switching between color, black-and-white, and sepia.
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''The Mirror'' (Зеркало, Zerkalo) (also referred to as ''Mirror''; ''Зеркало'' in Russian, which romanizes to ''Zerkalo'') is a 1975 semi-autobiographical art film directed and co-written by Creator/AndreiTarkovsky. It is difficult to describe because of the its plot, whose non-linear semi-autobiographical, nonlinear nature defies any kind of concrete narrative structure. structure.
It is best to describe it as thethoughts thoughts, dreams and recollections of Alexei (Ignat Daniltsev) and his son Ignat (Ignat Daniltsev) about his mother Maria (Margarita Terekhova) and wife Natalia (Margarita Terekhova). These memories stretch from the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Great Patriotic War]] to the present day. In what has been described as a cinematic equivalent to a stream of consciousness, the film is conveyed through contemporary scenes, newsreel footage, and poems written and read by Tarkovsky's father Arseny, its cinematography switching between color, black-and-white, and sepia.
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* {{Fanservice}}: Alexei's mother in ''The Mirror'' takes a shower in full view of the camera.
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GainaxEnding: Even allowing for the fact that Tarkovsky intended the film to depict Alexei's deathbed dreams and reminiscences (hence the stream-of-consciousness "narrative"), the ending is... odd. The final sequence is set in the countryside of Alexei's childhood as both old and young versions of Maria appear in the same scene, the former leading Alexei and his sister (as children) away and the latter several months pregnant, all while the opening chorus of Bach's ''St. John Passion'' blares on the soundtrack. Eventually, the music finishes, the camera tracks back into the surrounding forest... and we fade to black.
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LifeEmbellished: Tarkovsky drew on his own experiences of growing up with an often absent father and being evacuated from Moscow ahead of the Nazi attacks during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII to write the sequences depicting Alexei's childhood and adolescence.
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJWjdc0DFFI Herr, unser Herrscher]]" from theJohannes-Passion ''St. John Passion'' by Music/JohannSebastianBach plays at the end.
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RandomEventsPlot: The film jumps back and forth through time as the dying Alexei remembers/dreams about his life. Some scenes show his childhood after his father walked out on his family, others show his adolescence when he was evacuated from Moscow to avoid the Nazi air raids and then conscripted into the Soviet military, and still others show his adulthood as his marriage disintegrates and he realises his son Ignat is becoming just as distant from him as he has become from his own father. All punctuated by readings by the director's father, Arseny Tarkovsky, of his own poetry.
*SceneryPornSceneryPorn: The scenes of the Russian countryside where Alexei spent his childhood are shot in loving detail, with many of Tarkovsky's signature long, slow tracking shots allowing us to take in every leaf, every blade of grass.
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''The Mirror'' (Зеркало, Zerkalo) is a 1975 semi-autobiographical film by Creator/AndreiTarkovsky. It is difficult to describe because of the plot, whose non-linear nature defies any kind of concrete narrative structure. It is best to describe it as the thoughts and recollections of Alexei (Ignat Daniltsev) and his son Ignat (Ignat Daniltsev) about his mother Maria (Margarita Terekhova) and wife Natalia (Margarita Terekhova). These memories stretch from the UsefulNotes/GreatPatrioticWar [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII Great Patriotic War]] to the present day. The film was never officially released due to UsefulNotes/GosKino complaints, but has recently been released on DVD and subsequently welcomed into the Tarkovsky oeuvre.
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''The Mirror'' (Зеркало, Zerkalo) is a 1975 semi-autobiographical film by Creator/AndreiTarkovsky. It is difficult to describe because of the plot, whose non-linear nature defies any kind of concrete narrative structure. It is best to describe it as the thoughts and recollections of Alexei (Ignat Daniltsev) and his son Ignat (Ignat Daniltsev) about his mother Maria (Margarita Terekhova) and wife Natalia (Margarita Terekhova). These memories stretch from the UsefulNotes/GreatPatrioticWar to the present day. The film was never
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* ActingForTwo: Margarita Terekhova in ''The Mirror''. See {{Doppelganger}} below for why.
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* ActingForTwo: Margarita Terekhova in ''The Mirror''. See {{Doppelganger}} below for why.This film provides examples of:
* ActingForTwo: Margarita Terekhova in ''The Mirror''. See {{Doppelganger}} below for why.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Hey, it's [[AnatolySolonitsyn Writer]] from ''{{Film/Stalker}}'', or ''Film/AndreiRublev'', or Sartorius from ''Literature/{{Solaris}}'', playing the doctor at the beginning!
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* ProductionPosse: Common collaborators such as Tarkovsky's father, Arseny, wrote the poems. Meanwhile AnatolySolonitsyn appeared as a doctor.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/BibiAndersson and Creator/AllaDemidova were considered for the role of Maria/Natalia.
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* {{Doppelganger}}DeliberatelyMonochrome: Typical Tarkovsky. Monochrome sequences appear throughout the movie.
* {{Doppelganger}}: Margarita Terekhova plays both Alexei's mother and Alexei's wife Natalia, as well as a random ginger-haired girl, to illustrate that Alexei's lack of a father figure and subsequent reliance on his mother causes him to compare all the women he knows to his mother.
* {{Fanservice}}: Alexei's mother in ''The Mirror'' takes a shower in full view of the camera.
* {{Doppelganger}}: Margarita Terekhova plays both Alexei's mother and Alexei's wife Natalia, as well as a random ginger-haired girl, to illustrate that Alexei's lack of a father figure and subsequent reliance on his mother causes him to compare all the women he knows to his mother.
* {{Fanservice}}: Alexei's mother in ''The Mirror'' takes a shower in full view of the camera.
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* ActingForTwo
* AutobiographicalRole: Tarkovsky's mother plays Maria's mother. His father recites the poem.
* BasedOnATrueStory
* BioPic
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC9j4HgjVhk Exodus]]" by EduardArtemyev.
* TheDanza: IgnatDaniltsev as Ignat.
* {{Doppelganger}}
* GainaxEnding
* GreatPatrioticWar
* HeyItsThatGuy: Hey, it's [[AnatolySolonitsyn Writer]] from ''{{Film/Stalker}}'', or ''AndreiRublev'', or Sartorius from ''Literature/{{Solaris}}'', playing the doctor at the beginning!
* LifeEmbellished
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDV94Iti5ic Herr, unser Herrscher]]" from the Johannes-Passion by JohannSebastianBach plays at the end.
* RandomEventsPlot
* SceneryPorn
* StockFootage: The Mirror has lots of stock footage, including scenes of:
** Soviet balloons.
** The Spanish Civil War.
** The Great Patriotic War.
** The Sino-Soviet Border War.
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: BibiAndersson and AllaDemidova were considered for the role of Maria/Natalia.
* WriteWhatYouKnow
* WriteWhoYouKnow
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* ActingForTwo
* AutobiographicalRole: Tarkovsky's mother plays Maria's mother. His father recites the poem.
* BasedOnATrueStory
* BioPic
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jC9j4HgjVhk Exodus]]" by EduardArtemyev.
* TheDanza: IgnatDaniltsev as Ignat.
* {{Doppelganger}}
* GainaxEnding
* GreatPatrioticWar
* HeyItsThatGuy: Hey, it's [[AnatolySolonitsyn Writer]] from ''{{Film/Stalker}}'', or ''AndreiRublev'', or Sartorius from ''Literature/{{Solaris}}'', playing the doctor at the beginning!
* LifeEmbellished
* PublicDomainSoundtrack: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDV94Iti5ic Herr, unser Herrscher]]" from the Johannes-Passion by JohannSebastianBach plays at the end.
* RandomEventsPlot
* SceneryPorn
* StockFootage: The Mirror has lots of stock footage, including scenes of:
** Soviet balloons.
** The Spanish Civil War.
** The Great Patriotic War.
** The Sino-Soviet Border War.
* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: BibiAndersson and AllaDemidova were considered for the role of Maria/Natalia.
* WriteWhatYouKnow
* WriteWhoYouKnow
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