Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 107 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- Russian
- Country
- Russia
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In Russian — subtitles on.
The story
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.
- dreams
- wind
- poetry
- world war ii
- cigarette
- field
- spanish civil war (1936-39)
- nostalgia
- forest
- terminal illness
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Margarita Terekhova
Natalya / Maroussia - the Mother
Ignat Daniltsev
Ignat / Alexei - 12 Years Old
Larisa Tarkovskaya
Nadezha
Alla Demidova
Lisa
- Anatoliy Solonitsyn — Forensic Doctor
- Mykola Hrynko — Printery Director
- Tamara Ogorodnikova — Nanny / Neighbour / Strange Woman at Tea Table
- Yuriy Nazarov — Rifle Shooting Instructor
- Oleg Yankovskiy — The Father
- Filipp Yankovsky — Aleksei - 5 Years Old
- Tatyana Reshetnikova — Proofreader in Printing House
- Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy — Narrator - The Author's Words (voice)
- Arseny Tarkovsky — Narrator - His Own Poems (voice)
- Mariya Tarkovskaya-Vishnyakova — Old Mother
- Yuri Sventikov — Asafiev - War Orphan
- Directed
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Written
- Andrei Tarkovsky, Aleksandr Misharin
Production
- Rating
- 7.9 / 10 · 1,118 ratings
- Studio
- Mosfilm
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
