A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.

Credits: TheMovieDb.

Film Cast:

• Natalya / Maroussia – the Mother: Margarita Terekhova
• Ignat / Alexei – 12 Years Old: Ignat Daniltsev
• Nadezha – Mother of 12-Year-Old Alexei: Larisa Tarkovskaya
• Lisa: Alla Demidova
• Forensic Doctor: Anatoliy Solonitsyn
• Printery Director: Nikolay Grinko
• Nanny / Neighbour / Strange Woman at Tea Table: Tamara Ogorodnikova
• Rifle Shooting Instructor: Yuriy Nazarov
• The Father: Oleg Yankovskiy
• Aleksei – 5 Years Old: Filipp Yankovsky
• Asafiev – War Orphan: Yuri Sventikov
• Proofreader in Printing House: Tatyana Reshetnikova
• Old Mother: Mariya Tarkovskaya-Vishnyakova
• Redheaded Girl: Olga Kizilova
• Spanish Refugee: Ernesto del Bosque
• Spanish Refugee: Luis Correcher
• Spanish Refugee: Ángel Gutiérrez
• Spanish Refugee: Dionisio García Zapico
• Spanish Refugee: Tomas Pamies
• Spanish Refugee Twin: Teresa Del Bosque
• Spanish Refugee Twin: Tatiana Del Bosque
• Narrator (The Author’s Words) (voice): Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy
• Narrator (His Own Poems) (voice): Arseny Tarkovsky

Film Crew:

• Writer: Andrei Tarkovsky
• Editor: Lyudmila Feiginova
• Costume Design: Nelli Fomina
• Assistant Director: Larisa Tarkovskaya
• Writer: Aleksandr Misharin
• Director of Photography: Georgi Rerberg
• Producer: Erik Waisberg
• Original Music Composer: Eduard Artemyev
• Production Design: Nikolay Dvigubskiy
• Assistant Director: Mariya Chugunova
• Sound: Semyon Litvinov
• Makeup Artist: Vera Rudina
• Production Manager: Yuriy Kushneryov
• Assistant Director: Valeriy Kharchenko
• Assistant Camera: Ventzislav Ivanov
• Poem: Arseny Tarkovsky
• Camera Operator: Anatoliy Nikolayev
• Camera Operator: Igor Shtanko
• Construction Foreman: A. Merkulov
• Poem: Arseniy Tarkovskiy

Movie Reviews:

• tmdb47633491: Watching this again at age 24 with strep throat while the sun came up this morning, when I got to the part where the dog walks out the door and the woman starts picking up peaches or potatoes or whatever, I was literally reborn, etc.