Alla Demidova Anatoliy Solonitsyn Filipp Yankovsky Ignat Daniltsev Larisa Tarkovskaya Margarita Terekhova Nikolay Grinko Oleg Yankovskiy Tamara Ogorodnikova Yuriy Nazarov

1930s 1940s 1960s 20th century avant-garde biographical drama childhood cigarette criterion dream sequence dreamlike dreams dying man dying poet existentialist experimental film field flashback forest historical drama illness memoirs memories newsreel footage non-narrative nonlinear narrative nostalgia nostalgic nostalgic memory poetry poetry recitation portrait of an artist post world war ii pre war soviet union reflection reflective russia russian history russian poetry self reflection sepia color somber soviet union history spanish civil war (1936-39) stream of consciousness terminal illness the great patriotic war voice-over wind world war ii