Tarkovsky

Tarkovsky’s debut, and a film which in many aspects feels a world away from the director’s formidable spiritual works to come. When twelve-year-old Ivan’s family is wiped out by Nazis, the youngster joins up with a Partisan troop to take revenge.

A film full of striking images and setpieces, arranged in such a way that they don’t encourage one simple reading but instead provide a blend of dream, memory and poetic re-creation. The poems in the film are written and read by Tarkovsky’s father, while his own mother also appears.

Individual ideas and images will haunt the mind in this film, as Tarkovsky gives the whole film a look and feel that sets it apart from anything else you’ve ever seen.

A science-fiction masterpiece and a metaphysical meditation in which the inhabitants of a space station find themselves prey to unsettling visions caused by the planet Solaris.