Tarkovsky and Us: A Memoir of Collective Memory

Andrei Plakhov is a well-known film scholar and film critic, researching Russian and foreign auteur cinema. He served on the juries of film festivals in Venice, Berlin, and San Sebastián, was the program director of the Moscow International Film Festival (MMKF) and the “Mirror” festival in memory of Andrei Tarkovsky. “Tarkovsky and We” is a book about how cinema, through the work of a great artist, can influence a person’s life—and even radically change it. It’s about the intimate connection that people feel with Tarkovsky, both his contemporaries and the generations that followed—both in Russia and in other countries. Plakhov tells his own story of world cinema from the last fifty years. Tarkovsky and Parajanov, Khutsiev, Solovyov, Sokurov, Zvyagintsev, Trier, Fellini, Antonioni, Bergman, Kaurismäki… Memoirs of personal and, at the same time, collective memory.