Tarkovsky screens Hemingway: Andrei Tarkovsky’s first student film, The Killers (1956)

Raymond De Luca

doi:10.1080/17503132.2019.1589756

Tarkovsky screens Hemingway: Andrei Tarkovsky’s first student film, The Killers (1956)

Raymond De Luca

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Abstract

Part of a special issue devoted to the centenary of the Film Institute VGIK, this article discusses Andrei Tarkovsky’s first student film The Killers (1956), based on Ernest Hemingway’s ‘The Killers’. It explores the significance of the choice of a piece of foreign literature, a text by Hemingway, in 1956 for a student of VGIK. The article further studies the collaboration with Aleksandr Gordon and Maria Beiku, and draws out the approaches that make visible the influence of Italian neo-realism and connect this film to Tarkovsky’s later work.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	172-181
Number of pages	10
Journal	Studies in Russian and Soviet Cinema
Volume	13
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/17503132.2019.1589756
State	Published - May 4 2019

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Keywords

Andrei Tarkovsky
Ernest Hemingway
Film Institute VGIK
student films

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Visual Arts and Performing Arts

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