Natalya / Maroussia - the Mother
Ignat / Alexei - 12 Years Old
Nadezha - Mother of 12-Year-Old Alexei
Nanny / Neighbour / Strange Woman at Tea Table
Rifle Shooting Instructor
Proofreader in Printing House
Mariya Tarkovskaya-Vishnyakova
Old Mother
Narrator - The Author's Words (voice)
Narrator - His Own Poems (voice)
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Release Date:Mar 07, 1975
Keywords:Sibling-Relationshipdreams, wind, poetry, world war ii, cigarette, field, spanish civil war (1936-39), nostalgia, forest, terminal illness, flashback, dying man, avant-garde, illness, childhood, post world war ii, dream sequence, newsreel footage, nostalgic, reflection, poetry recitation, russian history, sepia color, historical drama, memoirs, 1940s, 1960s, non-narrative, somber, self reflection, 1930s, reflective, portrait of an artist, dreamlike, russia, soviet union history, memories, stream of consciousness, existentialist, 20th century, experimental film, pre war soviet union, russian poetry, nonlinear narrative, voice-over, nostalgic memory, biographical drama, the great patriotic war, dying poet