Andrei Tarkovsky: The Complete Collection (8 Blu-ray) DigiPack

Ivan's Childhood / Andrei Rublev / Solaris / Mirror / Stalker / Nostalgia / The Sacrifice

Ivan's childhood (1962)
...The childhood of 12-year-old Ivan ended on the day when the Nazis shot his mother and sister in front of his eyes. The boy's father died at the front. Left an orphan, Ivan goes to a military unit and becomes an elusive intelligence officer. At the risk of his life, he obtains invaluable information about the enemy for the command. But war is war...

Andrey Rublev (1966)
The Russian people believed in their strength, in their final liberation. The story of the life, creativity, and spiritual tossing of the greatest icon painter Andrei Rublev against the backdrop of historical events in feudal Rus' tormented by civil strife. The film, banned from screening in the USSR, was shown illegally at the Cannes Film Festival in 1969, created a sensation there and was sold to many countries around the world. The film was released in the USSR in 1971. To this day, “Andrei Rublev” is one of the pinnacles of Russian cinematography with a whole constellation of amazing actors. According to a survey of international film critics, the film was included in the 100 best films in the history of cinema.

Solaris (1972)
A new inhabitant, psychologist Chris Kelvin, arrives at the space station, whose employees have long and in vain been trying to come to terms with the mystery of the planet Solaris, covered by the Ocean, to understand the strange messages coming from the station and “close” it along with all the fruitless “solaristics”. At first, it seems to him that the few scientists who survived at the station have gone crazy. Then he himself becomes a victim of a terrible obsession: his former beloved Hari, who once committed suicide on earth, appears to him.

Mirror (1974)
The hero of the picture is painfully afraid of losing the love and understanding of loved ones: mother, beloved woman, son. And he feels that life is taking them further and further away from each other every day. Trying to save his family, he turns his memory to the most powerful impressions of his childhood, trying to find support and justification for his current experiences in that childish worldview.

Stalker (1979)
In a certain forbidden Zone, according to rumors, there is a room where the most cherished desires are fulfilled. A fashionable Writer and an authoritative Professor go to this room - each for their own reasons, which they prefer not to talk about. And the Stalker, a guide through the Zone, leads them there - either a holy fool, or an apostle of the new faith.

Nostalgia (1983)
Russian writer Andrei Gorchakov comes to Italy in search of biographical traces of the serf musician Pavel Sosnovsky, who once visited these places. The search for signs of the emigration days of the musician’s life is what connects Gorchakov with the translator Yuzhenya, who is helplessly trying to understand the reason for the melancholy of her Russian friend through a volume of poems by Arseny Tarkovsky. Soon Gorchakov begins to realize that the musician’s story is partly his own story: in Italy he feels like a stranger, but he can no longer return home. The hero is seized by a painful numbness, longing for his homeland turns into illness...

Sacrifice (1986)
What must be sacrificed to save the world from an impending disaster? With your property, your way of life, or maybe your life? What will the hero of the film put on the altar of the Almighty Creator, if the latter, of course, exists?!