> OF COURSE it was popular with communists A long story short: it wasn't. Tarkovsky suffered from censorship and lack of support for the production of non prop

> OF COURSE it was popular with communists A long story short: it wasn't. Tarkovsky suffered from censorship and lack of support for the production of non propaganda movies, like many others. > Edit: just started reading the movie's Wikipedia page Watching movies and reading about them before commenting on them is usually a good starting point.