1932. Andrei Tarkovsky was born

85 years ago, on April 4, 1932, film director Andrei Arsenievich Tarkovsky was born, famous for the films "Ivanovo Childhood", "Andrey Rublev", "Solaris", "Mirror" and "Stalker". All of them had limited rental in the USSR, although they were awarded prizes at prestigious international festivals.

In a letter to his father, already out of exile, Tarkovsky admitted: “I am out of more than twenty years of work in Soviet cinema - about 17 was hopelessly unemployed. Goskino did not want me to work! I was poisoned with all this time, and the last straw was a scandal in Cannes, where everything was done so that I did not get a bonus (I received them three) for the film“ Nostalgia ”. I think this film in the highest. degree patriotic ... "