Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was born on the 4th of April 1932 in the village of Zavrazhye. He spent his early years in Yuryevets with his mother Maria Ivanova Vishnyakova and sister Marina.
Andrei Tarkovsky announced at a press conference in Milan in July 1984 that he would never return to the Soviet Union due to fear of unemployment if he returned home. His departure was formalized when he was processed as a defector at a refugee camp in Latina Italy in August 1985.
The filmmaking approach known as sculpting in time required extensive preparation often taking two days to film a single take. This method involved using long takes to give viewers a sense of moments passing while altering their experience of duration.
Tarkovsky received the Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival in 1962 for Ivan's Childhood and multiple FIPRESCI prizes at Cannes. Posthumously he received the Lenin Prize in 1990 which is one of the highest state honors in the Soviet Union.
Treatment for terminal lung cancer began for Andrei Tarkovsky in Paris in January 1986 where his son Andre Jr finally joined him. He died on the 29th of December 1986 at Clinique Hartmann near Paris.