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Nostalgia (1983)

Nostalgia (1983)

Drama Romance
Release Date: 1983, May 1
Directors: Andrei Tarkovsky
Countries: Italy, Soviet Union
Production: Sovinfilm, Sovinfilm, Opera Film Produzione, Opera Film Produzione, RAI, RAI
Cast: Oleg Yankovskiy, Domiziana Giordano, Laura De Marchi, Milena Vukotić, Erland Josephson, Delia Boccardo, Patrizia Terreno

Overview:

Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov journeys through Italy with his interpreter Eugenia to research the life of an 18th-century Russian composer who once lived abroad. Isolated and consumed by an unrelenting longing for his homeland, Andrei becomes drawn to Domenico, a radical mystic obsessed with spiritual redemption. Through austere imagery and extended temporal rhythms, Tarkovsky examines exile, memory, and the profound melancholy of being unable to belong fully to either place or language.

Keywords:

dreams italy memory madness immolation crisis