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Renown Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, who liked to characterise his approach to making movies as sculpting in time, dies in Paris at the age of 54 from lung cancer. Born in a tiny village on the banks of the Volga River, he is accepted to the State Institute of Cinematography in 1954 where he becomes good friends with Andrei Konchalovsky. He finds international fame with his debut feature, the harrowing anti-war classic Ivan’s Childhood, winning the Golden Lion at the 1962 Venice Film Festival. More plaudits follow with Andrei Rublev (1965), Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris (1972), Mirror (1974) and the hypnotic sci-fi parable Stalker (1979) before he moves to Italy to pursue opportunities free of governmental interference. His last film, The Sacrifice, filmed in Sweden in 1985, is released posthumously in 1986.
