Overview:Japanese TV documentary about Andrei Tarkovsky The Japanese (NHK) documentary "Tarkovsky: A Journey to His Beginning", presented here, was first aired on 11 May 1996. Edited by Ms Tomoko Baba, the running time is 45 minutes. It's essentially a documentary surrounding the making of Andrei Tarkovsky's student short, The Killers (released by the Criterion Collection), based on the Hemingway short story.