The Steamroller and the Violin (Katok i Skripka) (The Skating Rink and the Violin) Reviews
Time Out
Top CriticTarkovsky's graduation project at the VGIK film school in Moscow offers a key to all the later 'mature' work: it's his clearest statement of frustrated longing for a perfect union with an idealised father-figure.
Young Mr. Tartovsky has side-stepped all the visual detours and pitfalls of the standard experimental vignette.
