“...This book aims to fill this gap at least partially, offering a detailed analysis of the entire “seven-film” and Tarkovsky’s other creative projects. based on a careful study of both the works themselves and all published and archival sources available to the author. The appearance of this book was partly due to the desire to challenge the established view of Tarkovsky as “more than a director.” Yes, Tarkovsky worked fruitfully in other forms of art, creating productions on the radio, in the theater, on the opera stage, acting as an actor, screenwriter and author of theoretical and diary texts. But this does not mean that he was a prophet, philosopher, sociologist or anything else of that kind. This book illuminates all facets of Tarkovsky’s creative personality, each in its place and in the context of the whole, but it proposes to consider Tarkovsky primarily as a film director, whose work can only be comprehended in the elements of cinema, as a revelation primarily about these elements...” PDF A4 format retains the publishing design.