Dina Musatova Speaks about Andrey Tarkovsky

Abstract

The conversation between Alexey Golubev, the editor-in-chief of the CSDF Museum website, and the film director Dina Musatova took place in November 2018. Dina (Vladilena) Mikhailovna Musatova is a theatre actress and documentary filmmaker. In 1954, she enrolled into the directing faculty of VGIK (Mikhail Romm’s class), from which she graduated in 1960. Musatova’s fellow students at VGIK were A. Tarkovsky, I. Raush-Tarkovskaya, V. Shukshin, Yu. Fait, A. Mitta, V. Kitaisky, A. Gordon. Between 1960 and 1991, she was a director at the Central Documentary Film Studio (CSDF). In 1966, Dina Musatova made the documentary film The Three Andreys (CSDF, director of photography Alexander Kochetkov). This film was about the creation of the film Andrey Rublev and the creative search of its main authors — Andrey Tarkovsky and Andrey Konchalovsky. The film was not released for the general public. It was first shown at the beginning of perestroika in the Cinema House during a retrospective show of Andrey Tarkovsky’s films. Many of the shots from this film which depict the outstanding director have become canonical today.

Keywords

• tarkovsky
• musatova
• the three andreys
• documentary cinema of the ussr
• auteur cinema