Andrei Tarkovsky, perhaps the greatest Russian filmmaker since Sergei Eisenstein, died Monday morning, Dec. 29, in Paris. Tarkovsky`s death, at 54, was not unexpected. He had been suffering from ca… ...

Tarkovsky’s career began in his home country, the Soviet Union. There he made Andrei Rublev in 1966, Solaris in 1972, followed by Mirror and Stalker.