After the research for writing "Tarkovsky and His Time" 2 years ago, I still can't help but questioning myself.
Did Soviet Union really so abuse him so that he couldn't work in his profession?
Did he decide to emigrate to West by himself?
Why did he buy so many things for new life in Italy that his bank deposit became almost empty?
Why did his second wife Larisa so hate first crews of "Stalker"?
Finally why do so many people accuse Larisa, especially in doc.film "Rerberg and Tarkovsky"?
All of these facts and situation suggest me the following.
Tarkovsky decided to emigrate to West because of Larisa.
Firstly, for filmmakers, it's fatal for his living to lose their comrades, creative crews for no reason(it's what Larisa's behavior caused to them).
Secondly, Tarkovsky knew how to communicate with Soviet cinema bureaucrats and how to earn by doing "part-time job"(for example, script writing for others) even in late 1970 s in Soviet Union.
Thirdly, he was disappointed in West before he declared emigration, as clearly written in his diaries.
Tarkovsky was a Soviet director, but had a sense of efficiency in his work. But Larisa, his ex-assistant director in "Andrei Rublev"didn't. Or precisely, she wanted the domination over him and his crews after "Mirror", where she was denied by her husband the role of hero's wife and mother.
For Tarkovsky, the situation must have been very difficult. Though cinema was the first thing for him, he couldn't behave so severe to Larisa as he could to other people. And she knew it.
Woman's pride grew up in her and it became destructive to his official status and his work in filmmaking, because his irritation affected to his attitude to bureaucrats and the crews.
Men are more "social" than women in some societies. Creative intelligentsia in USSR apparently made such society, especially in 1960 s. Friendship was a very important element of their life, making creative atmosphere. In making "Stalker", such an atmosphere was replaced by suspicious attitude to each other. Relations with bureaucrats was already worsened, though he was allowed to behave more bravely than before.
He felt alone in shooting, especially after his mother's death.
It was a tragedy of Tarkovsky as a talented Soviet creator and Soviet citizen.
In USSR he was a "cult" figure among educated people, and a qualified director of the largest film studio. He HAD a decent social status.
In West he was a "genius" oppressed by totalitarian Soviet regime, which could have allow him more freedom of creation if he remained untill the beginning of Perestoroika. That time none of us knew how he suffered from complicated private life and from desolate solitude.
Did Soviet Union really so abuse him so that he couldn't work in his profession?
Did he decide to emigrate to West by himself?
Why did he buy so many things for new life in Italy that his bank deposit became almost empty?
Why did his second wife Larisa so hate first crews of "Stalker"?
Finally why do so many people accuse Larisa, especially in doc.film "Rerberg and Tarkovsky"?
All of these facts and situation suggest me the following.
Tarkovsky decided to emigrate to West because of Larisa.
Firstly, for filmmakers, it's fatal for his living to lose their comrades, creative crews for no reason(it's what Larisa's behavior caused to them).
Secondly, Tarkovsky knew how to communicate with Soviet cinema bureaucrats and how to earn by doing "part-time job"(for example, script writing for others) even in late 1970 s in Soviet Union.
Thirdly, he was disappointed in West before he declared emigration, as clearly written in his diaries.
Tarkovsky was a Soviet director, but had a sense of efficiency in his work. But Larisa, his ex-assistant director in "Andrei Rublev"didn't. Or precisely, she wanted the domination over him and his crews after "Mirror", where she was denied by her husband the role of hero's wife and mother.
For Tarkovsky, the situation must have been very difficult. Though cinema was the first thing for him, he couldn't behave so severe to Larisa as he could to other people. And she knew it.
Woman's pride grew up in her and it became destructive to his official status and his work in filmmaking, because his irritation affected to his attitude to bureaucrats and the crews.
Men are more "social" than women in some societies. Creative intelligentsia in USSR apparently made such society, especially in 1960 s. Friendship was a very important element of their life, making creative atmosphere. In making "Stalker", such an atmosphere was replaced by suspicious attitude to each other. Relations with bureaucrats was already worsened, though he was allowed to behave more bravely than before.
He felt alone in shooting, especially after his mother's death.
It was a tragedy of Tarkovsky as a talented Soviet creator and Soviet citizen.
In USSR he was a "cult" figure among educated people, and a qualified director of the largest film studio. He HAD a decent social status.
In West he was a "genius" oppressed by totalitarian Soviet regime, which could have allow him more freedom of creation if he remained untill the beginning of Perestoroika. That time none of us knew how he suffered from complicated private life and from desolate solitude.
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