The Mirror (Зеркало) by Andrei Tarkovsky 1974
“A television documentary shows a young man being treated for a
severe stutter. A woman perches upon a bowed fence, gazing upon a
pastoral landscape. Nearby children are sleeping. A gust of wind brushes
through the undulating foliage, causing everyone to pause, as though
grasping at some elusive memory. Soon a house will catch fire. Later the
woman will rush back to the printing press where she works, panicked
that she may have made a disastrous typographical error—this is
Stalinist Russia, and there are words that can ruin lives.”
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