On December 7, in Moscow, depart to God at the age of 88 of the Russian film director and writer Aleksandr Gordon, Andrei Tarkovsky's VGIK colleague. Later he married Marina Tarkovskaia, the filmmaker's beautiful sister, and became his brother-in-law.
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| Aleks. Gordon in Bucharest, 2012 |
Aleksandr Gordon worked as a director at Moldova Film and Mosfilm studios and dubbed Andrei Tarkovsky's films Nostalgia and Sacrifice. In his youth he co-directed with Andrei Tarkovsky two student films at VGIK (Killers and Today We Don't Have Permission).
Towards the end of his life Aleksandr Gordon wrote several prose books, among which one was a memoir about his brother-in-law (Eternal Thirsty. Memories about Andrei Tarkovsky / Не утоливший жажды. Воспоминания об Андрее Тарковском, 2006).
His and Marina Tarkovskaia's son, Mikhail Tarkovsky, lives in Siberia, where he studies its unique ethnic heritage, and is an appreciated prose writer in Russia.
I had the joy and honor to invite Aleksandr Gordon twice to Romania - in 2006 and in 2012 - together with Marina Tarkovskaia, his wife, in the frames of two remarcable international Tarkovsky retrospectives, in which the two set the tone of the events.
Aleksandr Gordon was a warm, cheerful man, a reliable friend and a faithful husband, of a rare modesty and nobility. He never had any shadow of envy on his genious, but difficult comrade and brother-in-law, in whose shadow he was given to live his life.
Even in his last photos, Aleksandr Gordon's gaze shows an endless kindness and gentelness!
Eternal remembrance!
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| Razvan Theodorescu, Al. Gordon, Marina Tarkovskaia, Dmitri Salynski, Layla Alexander-Garett (in the background) at The international retrospective "Tarkovski in 2012" in Bucharest. Presents Elena Dulgheru |
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