Nostalghia

Starring: Erland Josephson, Oleg Yankovsky Director: Andrei Tarkovsky Dvd Release: 7th October, 1998 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: Black & White, Colour, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen, Region 0 Encoding Subtitled In: English

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Nostalghia is a 1983 film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. It was filmed in Italy, with most of the dialogue in Italian. The film tells the story of a Russian poet who travels to Italy to conduct research for a biography that he is writing. The narrative is intercut with abstract dream-like sequences. Among the themes of the film is the exploration of the expatriate Russians feelings of displacement, which most critics have identified with Tarkovskys own emotional experience of living in Italy. Nostalghia contains several shots which have become famous. One of these is an eight minute long take of a man walking across a drained outdoor pool carrying a candle, which he must prevent from being extinguished by the wind. He fails twice, walking slowly back to the beginning & starting again. The final image of the film is a forced perspective shot placing a rural farmhouse inside an columned Italian city courtyard. Nostalghia at the Internet Movie Database. Posters Of Nostalghia

Nostalgia is a film brimming with sumptuous images, dream like & evocative. Set in Italy, a visiting Russian poet questions the nature of memory & exile. Throughout the film he is haunted by flashbacks of his past & home, as he wanders through the landscapes of Tuscany & Umbria, encountering frescos of Piero della Francesca, images of candle lit altars. One particular scene of a woman walking across water with a candle has remained one of the most memorable I have seen in a film. Not exactly a racing plot, but the sheer visual nature of the narrative makes up for that. A must see for hard-core Tarkovsky fans & newcomers alike.

Oleg Ivanovich Yankovsky is a Russian actor who has excelled in psychologically sophisticated roles of modern intellectuals. In 1991, he became, together with Alla Pugacheva, the last person to be named a Peoples Artist of the USSR. Born into a noble family of Belarusian stock, Oleg Yankovsky formed an ambition to emulate his brother Rostislav & joined the Saratov Drama Theatre in 1965. His film career was launched two years later, when he was cast in two movies about the WWII. During his remarkably fruitful screen career, Yankovsky appeared in many film adaptations of Russian classics, notably My Sweet & Tender Beast & The Kreutzer Sonata. A leading actor of Mark Zakharov s Lencom Theatre since 1975, he starred in the TV versions of the theatres productions, An Ordinary Miracle & The Very Same Munchausen being the most notable. For his role in Roman Balayans Flights in Dreams & Reality Yankovsky was awarded the USSR State Prize. He has been better known abroad for his parts in Tarkovsky s movies The Mirror & Nostalghia. Posters Of Nostalghia

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Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Russian movie director, writer & actor. He is regarded as one of the most important & influential filmmakers of the Soviet era in Russia & one of the greatest in the history of cinema. Tarkovsky was a product of the golden era of Soviet arts education. He received a classical education in Moscow, studying Music & Arabic, before training for over five years at the VGIK film school, studying directly under Mikhail Romm among others. Although the Orthodox Christian symbolism of his films led to prevarication & occasional suppression of the finished product by the Soviet authorities, the Soviet Mosfilm studio system enabled him to make films that would not have been commercially viable in the West. However, Tarkovskys principal complaint about his treatment by the authorities was that he had many more ideas in him than he was allowed to bring to the screen & in 1984, after shooting Nostalghia in Italy, he decided not to return to Russia. Posters Of The Sacrifice

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