Mirror

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell of and juxtapose pivotal moments in Soviet history with daily life.

• dreams
• wind
• poetry
• world war ii
• cigarette
• field
• spanish civil war (1936-39)
• nostalgia
• forest
• terminal illness
• flashback
• dying man
• avant-garde
• illness
• childhood
• post world war ii
• dream sequence
• newsreel footage
• reflection
• poetry recitation
• russian history
• historical drama
• memoirs
• 1940s
• 1960s
• non-narrative
• somber
• self reflection
• 1930s
• portrait of an artist
• dreamlike
• russia
• soviet union history
• memories
• stream of consciousness
• existentialist
• 20th century
• experimental film
• pre war soviet union
• russian poetry
• nonlinear narrative
• voice-over
• nostalgic memory
• biographical drama
• the great patriotic war
• dying poet