Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Andrei Tarkovsky : I am for a poetic cinema / Patrick Bureau Encounter with Andrei Tarkovsky / Gideon Bachmann The burning / Ekran The artist in ancient Russia and in the new USSR / Michel Ciment, Luda Schnitzer, and Jean Schnitzer Dialogue with Andrei Tarkovsky about science-fiction on the screen / Naum Abramov I love Dovzhenko / Günter Netzeband The artist lives off his childhood like a parasite : an interview with the author of The Mirror / Claire Devarrieux Interview with Andrei Tarkovsky / Tonino Guerra Stalker, smuggler of happiness / Tonino Guerra Interview with Andrei Tarkovsky (on Stalker) / Aldo Tassone Against interpretation : an interview with Andrei Tarkovsky / Ian Christie Tarkovsky's translations / Philip Strick Tarkovsky in Italy / Tony Mitchell Nostalgia's black tone / Hervé Guibert Between two worlds / J. Hoberman and Gideon Bachmann My cinema in a time of television / Velia Iacovino An enemy of symbolism / Irena Brezna The twentieth century and the artist / V. Ishimov and R. Shejko Red tape / Angus MacKinnon Portrait of a filmmaker as a monk-poet / Laurence Cossé A glimmer at the bottom of the well? / Thomas Johnson Faith is the only thing that can save man / Charles H. de Brantes.