Concentrate (screenplay)

"Concentrate"
Author	Andrei Tarkovsky
Original title	"Концентрат"
Country	USSR
Language	Russian
Publication date	1958

Concentrate (Russian: Концентрат, Konsentrat) is a never-filmed 1958 screenplay by Russian film director Andrei Tarkovsky. The screenplay is based on Tarkovsky's year in the taiga as a member of a research expedition, prior to his enrollment in film school.

Plot

Concentrate is about the leader of a geological expedition, who waits for the boat that brings back the concentrates collected by the expedition. The expedition is surrounded by mystery, and its purpose is a state secret. This screenplay refers to Tarkovsky's year in the taiga, where he was a member of a research expedition prior to enrolling at the film school.^[1]

Background

Although some authors claim that the screenplay was filmed, according to Marina Tarkovskaya, Tarkovsky's sister (and wife of Aleksandr Gordon, a fellow student of Tarvosky during his film school years) the screenplay was never filmed. Tarkovsky wrote the screenplay during his entrance examination at the State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in a single sitting. He earned the highest possible grade, excellent (Russian: отлично) for this work. In 1994 fragments of the Concentrate were filmed and used in the documentary Andrei Tarkovsky's Taiga Summer by Marina Tarkovskaya and Aleksandr Gordon.^[2]

References

1. ^ Turovskaya, Maya (1989). Tarkovsky: Cinema as Poetry. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0571147097. http://ucalgary.ca/~tstronds/nostalghia.com/TheTopics/On_Shorts.html. 
2. ^ Blasco, Gonzalo (2003-11-10). "An Interview with Marina Tarkovskaia and Alexander Gordon". www.andreitarkovski.org. http://www.ucalgary.ca/~tstronds/nostalghia.com/TheTopics/Marina_and_Alexandr.html. Retrieved 2007-12-10. 

External links

• Concentrate script (Russian)