Longing for the Ideal. The Role of Children in the Films and Creative Philosophy of Andrei Tarkovsky Cover Image

Tęsknota za ideałem. Rola dzieci w filmach i filozofii twórczej Andrieja Tarkowskiego
Longing for the Ideal. The Role of Children in the Films and Creative Philosophy of Andrei Tarkovsky

Author(s): Wojciech Sławnikowski
Subject(s): Cultural history, Film / Cinema / Cinematography, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Andrei Tarkovsky; Russian cinema; Soviet cinema; children in film; religion in film;

Summary/Abstract: The topic of the article is the role of child characters in Andrei Tarkovsky’s oeuvre. The first part concerns the early films in which children appear as main characters and represent a spiritual ideal. In the second part, later films are analysed in terms of the presence of adult characters striving for this ideal.

  • Issue Year: 2020
  • Issue No: 33
  • Page Range: 353-383
  • Page Count: 31
  • Language: Polish