The Mirror (1975, Soviet Union) (aka Zerkalo, or Зеркало)

In Andrei Tarkovsky's transcendent, semi auto-biographical, collage-like, unconventional drama, presented as a series of non-linear flashback-poems as Alexei (a dying poet) was lying on his deathbed, with visually-beautiful, unforgettable long takes and images in the film, including:

• the mysterious opening sequence viewed on television, when a teenage boy was being cured of his stammer by a physician-hypnotist
• a dream sequence of Maria (Margarita Terekhova), Alexei's mother, bent over and washing her hair in a basin, and then raising her head and pulling her hair back
• another dream of Maria levitating several feet above her bed
• and the most indelible (from the year 1935) - the family barn (owned by Alexei's grandparents) on fire in the countryside and slowly burning to the ground as everyone watched

Family Barn in Flames	Pregnant Maria

• the final view of a pre-war (mid-1930s) pregnant Maria, smiling in a country field