(Mirror | Der Spiegel | Le miroir)
by Andrej Tarkovskij
USSR 1975
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Director:
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Andrej Tarkovskij | |
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Producer:
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Erik Weisberg | |
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Production Companies:
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Mosfilm Unit 4 | |
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Screenplay:
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Aleksandr Mišarin, Andrej Tarkovskij Poems by Arsenij Tarkovskij |
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Cinematographer:
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Georgij Rerberg (Sovcolor and b/w, 1.37:1) | |
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Editor:
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Ljuba Fejginova | |
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Music Score:
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Eduard Artem'ev Johann Sebastian Bach, Henry Purcell, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi |
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Art Director:
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Nikolaj Dvigubskij | |
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Special Effects:
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Jurij Potapov, Mosfilm F/X Unit | |
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Cast:
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Margarita Terekhova (Mother/Natalja), Anatolij Solonicyn (Forensic doctor/Pedestrian), Nikolaj Grin'ko (Director of printery), Ignat Danilcev (Ignat), Aljoša (Aleksej), Filip Jankovskij (Aleksej age 5) | |
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Runtime:
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106 min | |
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Premiere:
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April 1975 (USSR) |
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"Tarkovsky's visually transcendent, artistically revelatory film on lost innocence and emotional abandonment. Presented as a languidly paced, achronological cinematic montage of modern day life, personal memories, historical news footage, and dreams, Mirror is an introspective journey through the course of human existence, hope and despair, success and frailty ..."
— Acquarello, Strictly Film School "... une admirable plongée poétique et lyrique dans l'univers du souvenir." "... a history of his country in this century seen in terms of the personal. ... Unique its form unique its vision." |
Kino on Video NTSC Region 0 vs. Artificial Eye / RusCiCo PAL Region 0
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Distribution:
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Kino on Video Region 0 (North America) |
Artificial Eye / RusCiCo Region 0 (UK) |
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Runtime:
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106:29 min | 101:51 min (+ 4% PAL Speedup = 106 min) | |
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Video:
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1.33:1/4:3 FullScreen Average Bitrate: 5.34 mb/s NTSC 720x480 29.97 f/s Colours show a blue-greenish tint, contrasts are too strong |
1.33:1/4:3 FullScreen Average Bitrate: 5.86 mb/s PAL 720x576 25.00 f/s Picture has a much better definition, but colours and b/w show a slight magenta tint, less strong on PAL TV displays |
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Audio:
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Russkij Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono | Russkij Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Remix alters and/or distorts the original mono sound, see Nostalghia.com for more details |
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Subtitles:
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English (compulsory) | Russkij, English, Deutsch, Français, Español, Português, Italiano, Nederlands, Svenska, Arabic, Hebrew, Mandarin, Japanese | |
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Features:
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None | • Introduction: Interview with scriptwriter Aleksandr Mišarin (1.33:1, 32:32 min) • Introduction: Interview with politician Grigorij Javlinskij (1.33:1, 09:55 min) • Biographical Text Tables on Arsenij Tarkovskij • Excerpts of films with Anatolij Solonicyn (1.33:1, 08:18 min) • Documentary on Innokentij Smoktunovskij (1.33:1, 10:50 min) • Documentary on Nikolaj Grin’ko (1.33:1, 03:24 min) • Eduard Artem’ev: Dedication to Tarkovskij (1.33:1, 09:13 min) • Filmographies: Tarkovskij, Aleksandr Mišarin, Margarita Terekhova, Georgij Rerberg, Nikolaj Dvigubskij, Eduard Artem’ev • Photo Album • Trailers (hidden in the Filmographies) for Soljaris (2.35:1/4:3, 03:20 min), Nekončennaja p’esa dlja mekhaničeskogo pianino (1.33:1, 1:29 min), Sinjaja Ptica (1.33:1, 03:06 min), Sibiriada (1.33:1, 02:21 min), Dvorjanskoe gnezdo (1.33:1, 03:46 min) |
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DVD Release Date: 7 March 2000 Keep Case Chapters: 14 DVD Encoding: NTSC Region 0 SS-SL/DVD-5 |
DVD Release Date: 29 July 2002 Keep Case Chapters: 18 DVD Encoding: PAL Region 0 SS-DL/DVD-9 |
Frame 1: Menu
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Average Bitrate Region 1:
5.34 mb/s
Average Bitrate Region 2:
5.86 mb/s
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Disclaimer by This is a strictly non-professional and non-commercial DVD review. Don't expect industry reference work! All ChiaroScuro captures are taken under MacOS X.2 using VideoLAN and Snapz ProX. For further methodological remarks see DVDBeaver (click on "Methodology"): "We are not a lab and are doing a good a job as our time and energy permits. Thank you for understanding." |
Last update: 16 Aug 2002