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| Margarita Terekhova | Mother/Natalya |
| Anatoli Solonitsyn | Forensic doctor/Pedestrian |
| Nikolai Grinko | Director of printery |
| Ignat Daniltsev | Ignat, Alyosha (Aleksei) |
| Filipp Yankovsky | Aleksei age 5 |
| Alla Demidova | Lisa, Mother's friend at printing house |
| Larisa Tarkovskaya | Nadezha (Wealthy woman) |
| Yuri Nazarov | Military trainer |
| Oleg Yankovsky | Father |
| Yuri Sventisov | Yuri Zhary |
| Tamara Ogorodnikova | Nanny / Neighbour / Strange woman at the tea table |
Using a nonlinear structure interlaced with dreams and flashbacks, director Andrei Tarkovsky creates a stream-of-consciousness meditation on war, memory and time that draws heavily on events from his own life. Tarkovsky's film alter ego is Alexei, a dying man in his 40s whose commonplace interactions with his wife and children summon up a host of memories, ranging from his parents' divorce to his time on the battlefields of World War II.
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