Mosfilm is a film studio which is among the largest and oldest in the Russian Federation and in Europe. Founded in 1924 in the USSR as a production unit of that nation's film monopoly, its output includes most of the more widely acclaimed Soviet-era films, ranging from works by Andrei Tarkovsky and Sergei Eisenstein, to Red Westerns, to the Akira Kurosawa co-production Dersu Uzala and War and Peace.
A 2024 stamp of Russia dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Mosfilm, featuring its post-2012 logo
Old Mosfilm logo
Entrance sign to Mosfilm Studios in Mosfilmovskaya Street.
Entrance to Mosfilm Studios with a large clapperboard sign at left
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Russian film director and screenwriter. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential directors in cinema history, Tarkovsky's films explore spiritual and metaphysical themes, and are noted for their slow pacing and long takes, dreamlike visual imagery, and preoccupation with nature and memory.
Andrei Tarkovsky
Monument to Andrei Tarkovsky at entrance of Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography
Andrei and Larisa Tarkovsky's grave, Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery in France
Stamp of Russia, 2007