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Mirror DVD VIDEO autobiographical work Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky 1974 Type: Movie Platform: DVD Publisher: World Cinema Released: 1974 Media: DVD Mirror 'Mirror' is the 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. ik 'Mirror is an evocation of childhood without equal in the cinema... If you see it once, you will find yourself visiting it again and again' The Sunday Times 'A dazzlingly beautiful film, fascinat