Andrei Rubliov : 1969 - Prix de la FIPRESCI (Fédération Internationale de la Pesse Cinématographique) à Cannes
Nostalghia : Grand Prix du Cinéma de Création au festival de Cannes en 1983 Prix de la FIPRESCI à Cannes en 1983
Solyaris : Prix de la FIPRESCI à Karlovy Vary en 1972
Biography
Andrei Tarkovsky was born on April 4, 1932 in Zavroje, on the banks of the Volga, near Ivanovo. After studying music, painting and Arabic, Tarkovsky worked as a geologist in Siberia from 1952 to 1956 before entering the National Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow where he was a pupil of Mikhail Romm. In 1962, Ivan's Childhood shared with Diary , by Valerio Zurlini, the Golden Lion of the Venice festival. .
In 1969 Andrei Roublev received the prize of international criticism at Cannes, and the film made its author known all over the world. In 1972 Cannes awarded Solaris the Special Jury Prize. In 1982 Tarkovsky left for Italy to prepare with the scriptwriter Tonino Guerra Nostalghia , an Italian-French co-production with Soviet participation. The film, a poem on exile and nostalgia, through the trip to Italy of a Russian writer, received in Cannes in 1983 the Grand Prix of creative cinema, shared with L'Argent by Robert Bresson. For the filmmaker, exile also began: he stayed in Italy with his wife and collaborator Larissa and he fought so that he could join the rest of his family, which will happen in early 1986. His last film, The Sacrifice , received the special Grand Prix at the Cannes festival.
Andrei Tarkovsky died in Paris on December 29, 1986. He is buried in the Russian cemetery of Sainte-Geneviève des Bois not far from Paris.