Life as a Dream (2007)

In this video interview, film scholar and writer Vida T. Johnson (co-author, with Graham Petrie, of The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue) discusses the production history of Ivan’s Childhood, the symbolic visuals in the film, the various directors that influenced Andrei Tarkovsky in his early years as a filmmaker, the Soviet film system, etc. The interview was recorded exclusively for Criterion in 2007.