Delia Boccardo, Domiziana Giordano, Erland Josephson
This is another haunting film by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky--his first made outside of the Soviet Union. Like all of his films, Nostalghia has a mystical quality, as it follows the spir...( read more
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DVD Release Date: October 6, 1998
Stats: 218 reviews
A Russian poet in Italy researching a biography of a Russian composer experiences homesickness and ennui, and is asked to perform a ritual by a madman. Be warned: it's extremely slow-paced and dreamlike, including an almost 9 miute sequence of a man carrying a candle; but Tarkov...( read more)
Away from his homeland Russia, Tarkovsky delivered this phenomenal masterpiece, wonderfully directed and photographed, presenting a beautiful journey into nostalgia, faith, frustration and man's longing to find his own path.
A Soviet professor and his beautiful interpreter visit an Italian village with hot springs.
another masterpiece. Domiziana Giordano wasn't my favorite, but she also didn't take away from this in the slightest.
really great movie!
perhaps as with all tarkovsky's it seems a bit slow, but i find that poetic
Poetic & has some beautiful scenes specially the final shot which is one of the most beautiful scenes I've ever seen but the whole movie isn't that great IMO
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