Nostalgia ( Nostalghia ) ( Nostalgiya )

Nostalgia (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Nostalghia
Alternate Title: Nostalgiya
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Cannes Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Multi-lingual ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
120 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.66:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1983 and produced in:
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
Soviet Union ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
Andrei Tarkovsky

Written By:
Andrei Tarkovsky
Tonino Guerra

Actors:
Oleg Yankovsky ..... Andrei Gorchakov
Erland Josephson ..... Domenico
Domiziana Giordano ..... Eugenia
Patrizia Terreno ..... Andrei's Wife
Laura De Marchi ..... Chambermaid
Delia Boccardo ..... Domenico's Wife
Milena Vukotic ..... Civil Servant
Raffaele Di Mario
Rate Furlan
Livio Galassi
Elena Magoia
Piero Vida

Synopsis:

Nostalghia is Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky's enigmatic work about a writer (Oleg Yankovsky) who, trapped by his fame and an unhappy marriage, seeks out his cultural past in Italy. Here he meets Erland Josephson, a local pariah who declares that the world is coming to an end. The writer finds this prophecy curiously more alluring than the possibility of a dead-end future. Nostalghia won the Grand Prix de Creation and the International Critics Prize at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.

The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov, accompanied by guide and translator Eugenia, is traveling through Italy researching the life of an 18th-century Russian composer. In an ancient spa town, he meets the lunatic Domenico, who years earlier had imprisoned his own family in his house for seven years to save them from the evils of the world. Seeing some deep truth in Domenico's act, Andrei becomes drawn to him. In a series of dreams, the poet's nostalgia for his homeland and his longing for his wife, his ambivalent feelings for Eugenia and her Italy, and his sense of kinship with Domenico become intertwined.

Traveling through Italy with an interpreter to research a composer's life, a poet haunted by visions of his home and family in Russia meets a hermit fixated on the spiritual death of humanity who claims he knows the secret of its salvation.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 08 January, 2010.

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