Andrei Tarkovski

Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (Russian: Андрей Арсеньевич Тарковский) was a Russian film director and screenwriter. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential directors in cinema history, Tarkovsky's films explore spiritual and metaphysical themes, and are noted for their slow pacing and long takes, dreamlike visual imagery, and preoccupation with nature and memory.