A film by a director from this country ends with a defector failing to hang himself with his belt in an outhouse, and then falling to his knees in a courtyard looking at the open door. A director from this country analyzed the rhythm of film in the book Sculpting in Time. A female director from this country directed the war dramas Wings and The Ascent. In a film from this country, strips of cloth tied to metal nuts are thrown to test for (*) traps. A director from this country drew on his childhood for elements like his proofreader mother and a barn burning in the rain for his film Mirror. Another film from this country transitions from sepia to color as the Writer, Professor, and the title character take a railway car into the Zone. For 10 points, name this home country of the director of Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky. ■END■
ANSWER: Soviet Union [or the USSR or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics or the CCCP; accept Soviet Ukraine; prompt on Russia] (The female director is Larisa Shepitko.)
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