MOSCOW, June 11 Director Andrei Tarkovsky's sister, the inspiration behind the Zerkalo film festival, Marina Tarkovskaya, has died at the age of 89, the former deputy head of the Ivanovo Region Department of Culture reported. Nadezhda Sviyazova on the social network VKontakte.
«Marina Arsenievna Tarkovskaya has passed away. <…> The spiritual inspiration and core for many years of the Andrei Tarkovsky IFF «Zerkalo», the daughter of the great Russian poet Arseniy Tarkovsky and the sister of the great film director Andrei Tarkovsky, the author of many books about Arseniy and Andrei Tarkovsky. <…> A truly irreparable loss,» she wrote.
The Union of Cinematographers of Russia confirmed the information about the writer's death.
Tarkovskaya is a memoirist and biographer of her father and brother, the author of the books «Mirror Shards» (2018), «Arseny Tarkovsky: My Fate Burned Between the Lines» (2009), «Memories of Andrei», «Now We Have a New Address» (2014), and the compiler of the collections «I Lived and Sang Once…»: Memories of the Poet Arseny Tarkovsky» (1999), «About Tarkovsky. Memories in Two Books» (2002).
She starred in the documentaries «Rerberg and Tarkovsky: The Other Side of «Stalker» (2009) and «Marina's House» (2012).