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The Mirror, also known simply as Mirror (Russian: Зеркало), is a 1975 movie by Andrei Tarkovsky, which has spawned a cult following among Soviet intellectuals. It has been hailed as the most poetic and hermetic of Tarkovsky's films.

The movie is autobiographical, with some poems by Tarkovsky's father being recited and his mother's voice being heard. The film rhythmically blends contemporary scenes with scenes of childhood and newsreel footage. It has no apparent plot, and its loose flow of visually oneiric images was compared to the "stream of consciousness" technique in literature.

Innokenty Smoktunovsky provides the voice of the unseen narrator, Margarita Terekhova plays both his mother and wife, Alla Demidova appears as her friend, while Oleg Yankovsky and his 4-year-old son Philip make brief but memorable appearances as the narrator's father and son, respectively.

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