Director & scriptwriter Ebbo Demant

Camera Jürgen Bolz

Production SWF

Documentary on the final years in the life of director Andrey Tarkovsky, including his exile in Western Europe. The film shows the degree to which the themes of his films, “Nostalghia” and the “Sacrifice” almost literally came to encapsulate the director's own life and death.

 

EBBO DEMANT

Born in 1943 in Berlin. Studied journalism, history and politics at Freien Universität Berlin, where he also received a doctor’s degree. Since 1970 worked in the German TV & Radio Broadcasting Company SWF first as a reporter and radio editor, later headed the department of culture in the TV section, where he also wrote documentaries and TV programs. Professor at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy. Member of the Berlin Academy of Arts. Author of about a hundred documentaries, prizewinner of international film festivals.