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63 — Andrei Tarkovsky — 1/3 — Setting the Stage

About Buildings + Cities

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The Crucifixion of the King of the Jews

There's lots of scenes of Mongols coming and, you know, doing dastardly things. You see sort of this strange way that birch trees rot because their bark doesn't rot very fast but the inside rot's incredibly fast. The observation, close observation of nature is throughout the works and it, mesmeric long. This has like the amazing material culture in it. She's really dug into his vision of the medieval setting. There are some quite exciting bits - a lot of people running away trying to hide.

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