Mirror (1975)

Mirror rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.9/10· 55K votes

Rotten Tomatoes100%

Metacritic82%

TMDb7.953/10· 1K votes

With 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.9/10 on IMDb and 82/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been very positive.

About Mirror

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.

Cast of Mirror

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  Margarita Terekhova

  as Natalya / Maroussia - the Mother

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  Ignat Daniltsev

  as Ignat / Alexei - 12 Years Old

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  Larisa Tarkovskaya

  as Nadezha

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  Alla Demidova

  as Lisa

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  Anatoliy Solonitsyn

  as Forensic Doctor

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  Mykola Hrynko

  as Printery Director

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  Tamara Ogorodnikova

  as Nanny / Neighbour / Strange Woman at Tea Table

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  Yuriy Nazarov

  as Rifle Shooting Instructor

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  Oleg Yankovskiy

  as The Father

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  Filipp Yankovsky

  as Aleksei - 5 Years Old

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  Tatyana Reshetnikova

  as Proofreader in Printing House

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  Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy

  as Narrator - The Author's Words (voice)

Mirror facts

Original title

Зеркало

Budget

$825K

Box office

$124.4K

Our take on Mirror

Tarkovsky's 1975 autobiographical poem drifts through a dying man's memories, dreams and Soviet history with no conventional plot — only image, feeling and the deep currents of a life. Hypnotic and demanding, it's cinema as memory itself. If its meditative, associative spell held you, seek out contemplative art films that trade narrative for the texture of consciousness, time and longing.