nikolai buryaev, shot by andrey tarkovsky at his ninetieth birthday. long shots, slow camera movement, vertical and horizontal panoramas shot by andrey tarkovsky , following the main character of his documentary art picture, nikolai buryaev walks everything to convey in film images the spiritual essence of things. movie title. this is the first line of a prayer, tarkovsky, addressed to the lord god god, i feel your approach ivan from ivanov's childhood and boriska motore from andrey rublev nikolai burlyaev met tarkovsky as a child in 1961 , he says, he still feels a connection with the master . he lives all the time in my soul. every day. i'm with tarkovsky. i pray, a tarkovsky in the morning prayers every day. i talk about him all the time. i'm interviewing all the time i give. i watch his films, and i finally made the film that i think i could. forgive me, just me. no, the diaries of andrei tarkovsky himself and nikolai burlyaev, at the heart of the film, the fate of real people and the heroes of the paintings are intertwined with such attention to d