Moscow Newspaper Praises Work of Late Exiled Film Maker
A Moscow newspaper Saturday praised film maker Andrei Tarkovsky, who died in exile in December, for his cinematic triumphs during the “stagnation period” under the late Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev.
The English-language weekly Moscow News did not mention Brezhnev by name, but made clear that bureaucracy and censorship during his leadership were responsible for Tarkovsky’s difficulties in getting his films into circulation.
His films “Andrei Rublev” (1971), “The Mirror” (1975) and “Stalker” (1980) have been shown for the past two months at Moscow theaters for the first time in years.
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