Few people know, but famous director had an interesting origin. He was the grandson of Alexander Tarkovsky, who was a Ukrainian writer, one of the founders of the rebel group from Elizabethgrad. He spent three years in prison and five - in exile in Siberia. Grandfather's sister, actress Nadiya Tarkovsky, was the wife of Ivan Tobilevich (Karpenko-Kary). His father Arseniy was well-known poet and translator.
Andrei Tarkovsky was born on the 4th of April, 1932 in the village of Ivanovo region, Zavrazh'ye. When the boy was three years old, his father left the family. From this loss, Andrew suffered all his life, and improved relations with the father only when he became famous. His mother all her life worked in the printing. Family lived in poor, half-starved. Times were tough - war, post-war years ..
But Andrew's mother Maria Ivanovna did not flow into despair in spite of that. She supported him. First guy went to the art school, then – to the music one. Then the young man entered the Institute of Oriental Languages. But learning Arabic quickly bored him and he went to work to the taiga as the geologist. Suddenly - the new changes. Andrew successfully entered the directing department of VGIK at and graduated with honors.
Andrei Tarkovsky was extremely talented. His first work - a short film he made as a thesis, gained the main prize of the New York festival of student films. At the age of 29 Tarkovsky received international fame – because of his film "Ivan's Childhood". This picture won "Golden Lion" of the Venice International Film Festival. Incidentally, some scenes were filmed in Ukraine, also one of the roles was given to the actor Nikolai Grinko Kyiv. At the studio Dovzhenko, he was not likable for shooting, but Andrei Tarkovsky saw his talent and gave him roles in other his films. t
Some of the most popular films of Tarkovsky among the audience are the film "Solaris" and "Stalker", delivered by prominent fiction books - Stanislaw Lem and the Strugatsky brothers. Each new film of Tarkovsky brought a new breath to the world of cinema. But all this time there was a permanent conflict between Tarkovsky and the Soviets. So when he went to Italy to shoot the film "Nostalgia", he decided not to return to the Soviet Union. His works were banned in his homeland.
In Italy, the famous director also lived hard. Although he was able to buy a small house 40 kilometers from Rome, he lacked money. And the health began to deteriorate .. In 1985, doctors diagnosed Andrei Tarkovsky lung cancer. A year later he died. Filmmaker was buried in Paris, and on the monument, are stamped words: "The man who saw an angel."
Andrei Tarkovsky - the man who created modern art, close to all of us. "To be free, you just need it to be, without asking anybody for permission." He was so.
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