Moscow Elegy

1988 film

Moscow Elegy

Moscow Elegy DVD cover

Directed by| Alexander Sokurov
Written by| Alexander Sokurov
Starring| Andrei Tarkovsky
Tonino Guerra
Narrated by| Alexander Sokurov
Cinematography| Alexander Burov
Alexei Naydenov
Edited by| Lyudmila Feiginova
Tatyana Belousova
Alexandra Zhikhareva
Leda Semenova
Lida Volkova

Release date

* 1988 (1988)

Running time

| 88 minutes
Country| Soviet Union
Language| Russian

Moscow Elegy (Russian: Московская элегия) is a 1988 documentary film directed by Alexander Sokurov, about the later life and death of Soviet Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. The film was originally intended to mark the 50th birthday of Tarkovsky in 1982, which would have been before his death. Controversy with Soviet authorities about the film's style and content led to significant delays in the production.[1]

## Production[edit]

The film consists mostly of Sokurov's narration over stock footage from Tarkovsky's films Mirror, Nostalghia, Voyage in Time, and The Sacrifice, as well as footage of Tarkovsky shot during production for The Sacrifice. Some footage was supplied by Chris Marker.[2] Sokurov also shot footage of various houses and apartments where Tarkovsky had lived. With the exception of some of the archival footage, the film is entirely in black and white. Sokurov and the crew had scheduled a total of 12 days for the entire production.[2]

## Reception[edit]

The film was first screened at Dom Kino in Moscow in 1987 on Tarkovsky's birthday, and many Russian filmmakers and actors (for example Alexander Kaidanovsky) strongly disliked it.[2]

## Similar documentaries[edit]

Several other documentaries about Andrei Tarkovsky have been produced. Most notable are Voyage in Time by Tonino Guerra and Andrei Tarkovsky himself, One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich by Chris Marker, The Recall by Tarkovsky's son Andrei Jr., and Regi Andrej Tarkovskij by Michal Leszczylowski, the editor of Tarkovsky's The Sacrifice.[3] Tarkovsky has also been featured in numerous documentaries about the history of cinema or the craft and art of filmmaking.[4]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Sokurov, Alexander, Moscow Elegy Archived 2007-01-02 at the Wayback Machine, Alexander Sokurov's official website, accessed June 20, 2007
2. ^ a b c Sokurov, Alexander, Editor's Notes in DVD release of Moscow Elegy, Ideale Entertainment, 2006
3. ^ "[ Nostalghia.com | The Documentaries ]". www.nostalghia.com. Retrieved 2023-06-24.
4. ^ Trondsen, Trond S.; Jan Bielawski. "Significant Documentaries". Nostalghia.com – An Andrei Tarkovsky Information Site. Retrieved 2008-09-01.

## External links[edit]

* Moscow Elegy at IMDb

* v
* t
* e

Films directed by Alexander Sokurov

Fiction films|

* The Degraded
* Empire
* The Lonely Voice of Man
* Mournful Unconcern
* Days of Eclipse
* Save and Protect
* The Second Circle
* Stone
* Whispering Pages
* Mother and Son
* Moloch
* Taurus
* Russian Ark
* Father and Son
* The Sun
* Alexandra
* Faust
* Two Brothers and a Sister
* Francofonia
* Fairytale

Documentaries|

* Sonata for Viola. Dmitri Shostakovitch
* Elegy
* And Nothing More
* Evening Sacrifice
* Patience of Labour
* Maria
* Moscow Elegy
* Sonata for Hitler
* Petersburg Elegy
* Soviet Elegy
* To The Events In Transcaucasia
* A Simple Elegy
* A Retrospection of Leningrad
* An Example of Intonation
* Elegy from Russia
* Soldier's Dream
* Spiritual Voices
* Oriental Elegy
* Hubert Robert. A Fortunate Life
* A Humble Life
* The St. Petersburg Diary: Inauguration of a monument to Dostoevsky
* The St. Petersburg Diary: Kosintsev's Flat
* Confession
* The Dialogues with Solzhenitsyn
* dolce...
* Elegy of a Voyage
* The St. Petersburg Diary: Mozart. Requiem
* Elegy of a life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya

* v
* t
* e

Andrei Tarkovsky

* Filmography
* Awards

Films|

| Student films|

* The Killers (1956)
* There Will Be No Leave Today (1959)
* The Steamroller and the Violin (1961)

|

Feature films|

* Ivan's Childhood (1962)
* Andrei Rublev (1966)
* Solaris (1972)
* Mirror (1975)
* Stalker (1979)
* Nostalghia (1983)
* The Sacrifice (1986)

Documentaries|

* Voyage in Time (1983)

Books|

* Sculpting in Time
* Time Within Time: The Diaries 1970–1986

Works about|

* Moscow Elegy
* One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
* The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue
* Bibliography

This article about a documentary film about the arts is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

|

* v
* t
* e

This article related to a Soviet film of the 1980s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

|

* v
* t
* e

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template