The most accessible Andrei Tarkovsky film, with cinematography by Sven Nykvist. Filmed in Sweden, the light is remarkably beautiful and ruminative, appearing like one Vilhelm Hammershoi painting after another. Erland Josephson as the philosophical professor who asks for a chance to prevent Armageddon from occuring. Find out the remarkable insight he attains in the pursuit of peace.

Andrei Rublev employs the story of 15th century Russian icon painter as a metaphor to the creative process and the artistic lifeforce. A boy is asked to build a belltower to save his own life. Can he do it? Filmed in beautiful black and white, the opening sequence has Tarkovsky's most breathless flight scene.

A film about mortality that inspects a madman's life and a poet dying of cancer. The four elements that Tarkovsky is so fond of addressing has fire highlighted for this movie. Filmed in Italy, this was a semi-biographical storyline.

Tarkovsky's very early attempt in film school about the curious innocent relationship that forms between a young boy and a construction worker. This is a short film but the scene with an apple offered to a little girl in the music school is not to be missed. The tracking shot already hints at Tarkovsky's future style.