Editing Andrei Tarkovsky (section)

==Unproduced screenplays==
===''Concentrate''===
'''''Concentrate''''' ({{lang|ru|Концентрат}}, ''Kontsentrat'') is a never-filmed 1958 screenplay by 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.<ref>{{cite book |last= Turovskaya |first= Maya |title= Tarkovsky: Cinema as Poetry |publisher= Faber and Faber |year= 1989 |location= London |url= http://ucalgary.ca/~tstronds/nostalghia.com/TheTopics/On_Shorts.html |isbn=978-0-571-14709-0 |access-date= 30 December 2014 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090612124640/http://ucalgary.ca/~tstronds/nostalghia.com/TheTopics/On_Shorts.html |archive-date= 12 June 2009 |url-status= dead}}</ref> It's about the leader of a geological expedition, who waits for the boat that brings back the [[concentrate]]s collected by the expedition. The expedition is surrounded by mystery, and its purpose is a state secret.

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 Tarkovsky during his film school years) the screenplay was never filmed. Tarkovsky wrote the screenplay during his entrance examination at the State Institute of Cinematography ([[Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography|VGIK]]) in a single sitting. He earned the highest possible grade, "excellent" ({{lang|ru|отлично}}) for this work. In 1994, fragments of ''Concentrate'' were filmed and used in the documentary ''Andrei Tarkovsky's Taiga Summer'' by Marina Tarkovskaya and Aleksandr Gordon.<ref>{{cite web |last=Blasco |first=Gonzalo |title=An Interview with Marina Tarkovskaia and Alexander Gordon |publisher=andreitarkovski.org |date=10 November 2003 |url=https://www.ucalgary.ca/~tstronds/nostalghia.com/TheTopics/Marina_and_Alexandr.html |access-date=14 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180307214559/http://people.ucalgary.ca/~tstronds/nostalghia.com/TheTopics/Marina_and_Alexandr.html |archive-date=7 March 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

===''Hoffmanniana''===
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|name = Hoffmanniana
|title_orig = Гофманиана
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|author = Andrei Tarkovsky
|country = [[Soviet Union|USSR]]
|language = Russian
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|media_type = Screenplay
|pub_date = 1976
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'''''Hoffmanniana''''' ({{lang|ru|Гофманиана}}) is a never-filmed 1974 screenplay by Tarkovsky. The screenplay is based on the life and work of German author [[E. T. A. Hoffmann]]. In 1974, an acquaintance from [[Tallinnfilm]] approached Tarkovsky to write a screenplay on a German theme. Tarkovsky considered [[Thomas Mann]] and E. T. A. Hoffmann, and also thought about [[Henrik Ibsen|Ibsen]]'s ''[[Peer Gynt]]''. In the end Tarkovsky signed a contract for a script based on the life and work of Hoffmann. He planned to write the script during the summer of 1974 at his [[dacha]]. Writing was not without difficulty, less than a month before the deadline he had not written a single page. He finally finished the project in late 1974 and submitted the final script to Tallinnfilm in October.<ref name=wpowell>{{cite book |last= Tarkovsky |first= Andrei |editor-first= William |editor-last= Powell |title= Collected Screenplays |publisher= Faber & Faber |location= London |year= 1999}}
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Although the script was well received by the officials at Tallinnfilm, it was the consensus that no one but Tarkovsky would be able to direct it. The script was sent to [[State Committee for Cinematography|Goskino]] in February 1976, and although approval was granted for proceeding with making the film, the screenplay was never realized. In 1984, during the time of his exile in the West, Tarkovsky revisited the screenplay and made a few changes. He also considered to finally direct a film based on the screenplay but ultimately dropped this idea.<ref name=wpowell/>