Stars: Oleg Yankovsky, Domiziana Giordano, Erland Josephson

Director: Andrei Tarkovsky

Summary: A Russian poet travels to a Tuscan spa in Italy to do some research. The local mystic sets him a challenge. Italian dialogue.

Director Andrei Tarkovsky recasts his lifelong cinematic motif of humanity's quest for faith in the waterlogged and mist-ensconced countryside of Italy for his philosophical masterpiece NOSTALGIA. Andrei Gorchakov (Oleg Yankovsky) is a misanthropic Russian scholar researching the life of an exiled Russian composer who committed suicide. With the help of his beautiful guide, Eugenia (Domiziana Giordano), Andrei visits mystical and religious sites on the trail of the late composer's legacy. In the shadow of the doomed composer's memory, Andrei finds himself crippled by a melancholy nostalgia for his Russian homeland, only to discover redemption in the form of a madman, Domenico (Erland Josephson), whom he encounters at St. Catherine's pool, a religious site in Sienna. Domenico, a former professor who once locked his family away for seven years in anticipation of Armageddon, now leads a seemingly insane existence, believing that if he can travel across the pool with a lighted candle, he can save all of humanity. As in his mystical film THE MIRROR, Tarkovsky weaves a dense, mediatative pattern of images--freely mixing past and present, dream and reality, color and black and white, landscape and architecture--with the scholar and the madman acting as allegorical players in a metaphysical trial by fire and water.

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Aspect Ratio:	4:3 Full Frame
Main Language:	Italian
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Documentary Tempo Di Viaggio By Andrei Tarkovsky, Tarkovsky In Nostalgia By Donatella Baglivo, Filmographies, Production Notes, Stills Gallery
Subtitles:	English
Year:	1983
Release Date:	February 24, 2003
Runtime:	120 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	A R T 033 D V D
Keywords:	Subtitled, Two, General, Italian, Nostalgia, Drama, Discs, Nostalghia
Genre:	Drama