"Director: Andrei Tarkovsky"

• Mirror | DVD | (29/07/2002) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Andrei Tarkovsky's Haunting Masterpiece from Russia. Andrei Tarkovsky the acclaimed master of Soviet cinema takes a moving and personal turn with this striking meditation on life in Russia during the bleak days of WWII. The Mirror is not just the display of a film director at the peak of his unique powers. As an homage to the innocence of childhood it tells an enigmatic tale that is both gripping and horrifying. Tarkovsky uses his own coming-of-age experiences himself ""mirr

• Solaris | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Released in 1972, Solaris is Andrei Tarkovsky's third feature and his most far-reaching examination of human perceptions and failings. It's often compared to Kubrick's 2001, but although both bring a metaphysical dimension to bear on space exploration, Solaris has a claustrophobic intensity which grips the attention over spans of typically Tarkovskian stasis. Donatas Banionis is sympathetic as the cosmonaut sent to investigate disappearances on the space station orbiting the planet Solaris, only to be confronted by his past in the guise of his dead wife, magnetically portrayed by Natalya Bondarchuk. The ending is either a revelation or a conceit, depending on your viewpoint. On the DVD: Solaris reproduces impressively on DVD in widescreen--which is really essential here--and Eduard Artemiev's ambient score comes over with pristine clarity. There are over-dubs in English and French, plus subtitles in 12 languages. An extensive stills gallery, detailed filmographies for cast and crew, and comprehensive biographies of Tarkovsky and author Stanislaw Lem are valuable extras, as are the interviews with Bondarchuk and Tarkovsky's sister and an amusing 1970s promo-film for Banionis. It would have been better had the film been presented complete on one disc, instead of stretched over two. Even so, the overall package does justice to a powerful and disturbing masterpiece. --Richard Whitehouse

• Stalker | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  Andrey Tarkovsky entered school in Moscow in 1945 and nine years later enrolled at the State Institute of Cinematography. He displayed a remarkable talent with his first feature Ivan's Childhood in 1962 and he continued to astound for over twenty years. He announced his self-imposed exile from the USSR in 1984 just two years before his death. His memory has since been venerated in his home country and his reputation and stature continue to grow throughout the world. The 'Stal

• Ivan's Childhood | DVD | (26/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Andrei Tarkovsky's prize-winning debut feature is an extraordinaryly moving and powerful story of war and revenge. Determined to avenge his family's death at the hands of the Nazis 12 year old Ivan joins a Russian partisan regiment as a scout where he becomes indispensable for his ability to slip unnoticed through enemy lines. But as his missions become increasingly dangerous it is decided that he must be removed from the front line. Ivan resists and convinces his commanding offic

• The Sacrifice | DVD | (08/07/2013) from £11.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (60.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In a typical visionary style Tarkovsky's depiction of the dawn of WWII and its effects on an isolated family group is awash with breathtaking cinematography and resounds with a deep mythical profundity. BAFTA Winner (Best Foreign Language Film 1988). Winner of 4 awards at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival.

• Nostalgia | DVD | (08/07/2013) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-4.24 (-26.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An enigmatic work bathed in dream-like imagery and deep symbolism about a writer trapped by fame and an unhappy marriage seeking out his cultural past. Winner of the Grand Prix de Creation and Fipresci prize at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.

• The Andrei Tarkovsky Collection | DVD | (27/06/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Titles Comprise: Ivan's Childhood Andrei Rublev Mirror Solaris Stalker Nostalgia The Sacrifice

• The Sacrifice | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Set in Sweden Andrei Tarkovsky's last film follows the travails of wealthy patriarch Alexander (Erland Josephson) a former actor and critic who lives in a remote home on the edge of the Baltic Sea. One year on his birthday a sudden television announcement interrupts the celebration with news of a nuclear holocaust. His family and guests suffer through violent fits of hysteria and emotional turmoil in the ensuing days but the previously troubled Alexander finds a clearness of mind

• Nostalgia | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Tarkovsky's unforgettably haunting film his first to be made outside Russia explores the melancholy of the expatriate through the film's protagonist Gorchakov a Russian poet researching in Italy. Arriving at a Tuscan village spa with Eugenia his beautiful Italian interpreter Gorchakov is visited by memories of Russia and of his wife and children and he encounters the local mystic who sets him a challenging task. The film is filled with a series of mysterious and extraordinary

• Ivan's Childhood | DVD | (22/08/2012) from £19.53   |  Saving you £-3.54 (-22.10%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Andrei Tarkovsky’s debut feature is an extraordinarily moving and powerful story of war and revenge. Determined to avenge his family’s death at the hands of the Nazis, 12 year-old Ivan joins a Russian partisan regiment as a scout, where he becomes indispensable for his ability to slip unnoticed behind enemy lines. But, as his missions become increasingly dangerous, it is decided that he must be removed from the front line. Ivan resists and convinces his commanding officers to allow him to carry out one last expedition.

• Stalker | DVD | (08/08/2012) from £25.90   |  Saving you £-9.91 (-62.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Deep within the Zone, a bleak and devastated forbidden landscape, lies a mysterious room with the power to grant the deepest wishes of those strong enough to make the hazardous journey there. Desperate to reach it, a scientist and a writer approaches the Stalker, one of the few able to navigate the Zone’s menacing terrain and they begin a dangerous trek into the unknown. Tarkovsky’s second foray into science fiction after ‘Solaris’ is a surreal and disturbing vision of the future. Hauntingly exploring man’s dreams and desires, and the consequences of realising them, ‘Stalker’, adapted from Arkady & Boris Sturgatsky’s novel ‘Roadside Picnic’, has been described as one of the greatest science fiction films of all time.

• Solaris | DVD | (08/08/2012) from £25.90   |  Saving you £-9.91 (-62.00%)   |  RRP £15.99

  "Ocean's Eleven" director Steven Soderbergh and leading man George Clooney reunite for a remake of the classic Russian science fiction movie about a psychologist sent to a space station orbiting the mysterious ocean world known as Solaris.

• Mirror | DVD | (22/08/2012) from £21.58   |  Saving you £-5.59 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  ‘Mirror’ is celebrated Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky’s most autobiographical work in which he reflects upon his own childhood and the destiny of the Russian people. The film’s many layers intertwine real life and family relationships - Tarkovsky’s father, the poet Arseny Tarkovsky, reads his own poems on the soundtrack and Tarkovsky’s mother appears as herself - with memories of childhood, dreams and nightmares. From the opening sequence of a boy being cured of a stammer by hypnotism, to a scene in a printing works which encapsulates the Stalinist era, “Mirror” has an extraordinary resonance and repays countless viewings.