This director's final student film was The Steamroller and the Violin.
This director's final student film was The Steamroller and the Violin. In one of his films, an author spurns his translator Eugenia and accepts the mission of an old man who'd once imprisoned his family for seven years - walking across a natural spring with a lit candle. In another movie, the title figure is a man trained by the now-dead Porcupine who guides a writer and a scientist into the Zone, which contains the Room, but neither has the courage to see what's inside. In addition to Nostalghia and Stalker, he experimented with time in 1974's Mirror and depicted a third world war on a remote Baltic island in his final film, 1986's Sacrifice. FTP, name this man who also directed ►the 1972 film adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's book Solaris and was born in Russia.
This director's final student film was The Steamroller and the Violin.
Andrei Tarkovsky