"The Mirror"
1975
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

Dramatic footage is intercut with documentary sequences from the Spanish Civil War and Soviet-Chinese confrontations in this essential film whose puzzles provide the key to Tarkovsky's other works. Tarkovsky's looking glass is not merely cracked but shattered and we see the jagged, jumbled reflections of its shards, each reflecting an aspect of the tragedies in the life of the man.  "Superbly directed; overall, it works most effectively as an homage to childhood innocence."... Leonard Maltin's Film & Video Guide. Russian with English subtitles.
101 minutes.