Tarkovsky and Us

Andrei Plakhov — a renowned film scholar and critic, researcher of Russian and foreign auteur cinema.

He was a member of the jury at film festivals in Venice, Berlin, San Sebastián, program director of the Moscow International Film Festival and the "Mirror" festival in memory of Andrei Tarkovsky. "Tarkovsky and Us" — a book about how cinema as an art form can influence a person's life — and even radically change it. About the intimate connection that people of his and subsequent generations feel with Tarkovsky — in Russia and in other countries.

Plakhov writes his history of world cinema over the past fifty years. Tarkovsky and Parajanov, Khutsiev, Solovyov, Sokurov, Zvyagintsev, Trier, Fellini, Antonioni, Bergman, Kaurismäki… A memoir of personal and simultaneously collective memory.