Tarkovsky Theater

**The Tarkovsky Theater** is a Russian-based theater located in New York City, United States. It is a secret home for the Ruska Roma's Russian assassination academy. It is run by The Director.

## History

### Background

The theater is located at 4140 Broadway in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. It has a Neo-Assyrian and Baroque interior architecture style and the interior is ornately ornamented with filigreed walls and ceilings that are illuminated from within and behind the walls.

At this architectural masterpiece and Ruska Roma's New York mansion, old-world luxury serves as the backdrop for the Director's rigorous training activities. A base for the Ruska Roma's Russian assassination classes for boys and girls that involves pain. The boys having their Sambo martial arts while girls having their ballet performances as training. Both classes are mentored by The Director, who also trained and raised John Wick as a mother figure when he was young. Beneath its gilded, filigreed halls, Renaissance paintings and baroque furnishings collect dust while students of ballet and Soviet-era martial arts prove the adage that art is pain and life is suffering.

### *John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum*

Following John Wick's excommunication, he flees to the Tarkovsky Theater for assistance. From the ticket booth, he held his Orthodox rosary. He then entered the building where he met some Ruska Roma gangsters in the lobby. John then presented them with his rosary, gold coin, and a marker. The mobsters also requested that John must remove his belt before meeting with the Director. John then walks into the theater, where the Director is training Rooney on the stage. John then meets the Director and kneels before her, showing the rosary, and asks for a ticket with the Director disappointed. The Director then chastised John for his recent behavior and reminded him that the Ruska Roma is bound by the High Table. John then swore an oath to the Director, stating his birth name and where he came from.

The Director then calls Rooney to stop her performance and accompanies John to her office. She then shows John all the pupils inside and the classes they've taken. The Director then tells John about the memories he had when he was young, just by looking at the students. In her office, the Director asked John what he wanted and John replied a passage for traveling to Casablanca.

The offer is then accepted by the Director. The Director then breaks the crucifix of the rosary that John has given her. The Director then instructs a mobster to insert the crucifix into a steel rod and heat it. John then takes off his suit, revealing his back. The gangster then strikes John's back with the heated crucifix, leaving a scorched mark. Before leaving, The Director then tells John that he can never go back again to her. She sends him to a lifeboat in order to travel to Morocco.

With John has successfully arrived at Casablanca to meet Sofia Al-Azwar, the theater is raided by Zero's ninja assassins' led by the Adjudicator who confronts the Director in the middle of a dance recital. The Adjudicator then inquired as to why she assisted John, given that the ticket did not stand above the High Table. As a result of the repercussions, the Adjudicator stated that her penance would be paid in blood. The Adjudicator next asks the Director to raise her hand and say the Table's oath while folding her hands. Zero then stabs both of her hands, drenching them with blood.

## Paintings in the Director's office

Judith Beheading Holofernes by CaravaggioSacrifice of Isaac by RembrandtMassacre of Innocents by Léon CognietJudith and Her Maidservant by Artemisia GentileschiThe Conversion of Saint Paul by Caravaggio
## Trivia

* The theater's name is a nod to the great Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky.