I have always liked people who can't adapt themselves to life pragmatically.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

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[So the Zone lets the good through and kills the evil?] I don't know. I don't believe that. I think it lets through those who've lost all hope. Not the good or the bad, but the unhappy.

― Andrei Tarkovsky

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It is time for a new direction.

— Andrei Tarkovsky

[Last words, as reported by his wife.]

Margarita Terekhova

Mirror; dir. by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1975

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New restoration of Stalker; by Janus Films

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On the set of Stalker; dir. by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1979

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Nostalghia; dir. by Andrei Tarkovsky in 1983

Nostalghia is a film about waiting, about the long journey before the arrival.

— Ian Maxton

* 04.04.1932 - † 29.12.1986

In memory of

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