'I’ve been calling you all evening today…' A Letter from Andrey Tarkovsky

This publication introduces into scholarly discourse a letter from the outstanding Russian director Andrey Tarkovsky to Iosif Manevich (1907–1976), the then editor-in-chief of Mosfilm and lecturer at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). In his letter, Tarkovsky asks for assistance in promoting the script of Bagrat Oganesyan, who was an intern on the set of the film Andrei Rublev. The material allows us to more accurately determine the place of artistic intelligentsia in the film process and the realities of film production in the USSR in the 1970s.