Mikhail Vartanov's "Parajanov: The Last Spring"
				
				
						 Caption: Mikhail Vartanov's "Parajanov: The Last Spring"
																																				
						Writer, Director, Miscellaneous Crew
						Born: April 4, 1932
						Star sign: Aries
						Height: 5' 7½" (1.71 m)
						Known for: Solaris (1972), Andrei Rublev (1966), The Sacrifice (1986), The Mirror (1975)
						Source: IMDB
						The most famous Soviet film-maker since Sergei M. Eisenstein, Andrei Tarkovsky (the son of noted poet Arseniy Tarkovsky) studied music and Arabic in Moscow before enrolling in the Soviet film school V.G.I.K. He shot to international attention with his first feature, Ivan's Childhood (1962), which won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival. This...