Episode Details

Andrei Tarkovsky made seven feature films, each one a meditation on time, memory, and the sacred. The Soviet authorities censored him, delayed his productions, and eventually drove him into exile. He died of cancer in Paris at 54, convinced that the KGB had poisoned him on set.

This episode traces his uncompromising vision from Ivan's Childhood through Stalker and Nostalghia, examining why his films are revered as some of the most profound works in cinema history.

• How Stalker's filming conditions may have caused his fatal cancer
• His battles with Soviet censors over Andrei Rublev and Mirror
• The theory of sculpting in time that defined his filmmaking philosophy
• His final film The Sacrifice and the exile that preceded his death