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Nostalgia
RUSSIA · 1983

Nostalgia

Andrei Tarkovsky
exile and displacement spiritual redemption memory and nostalgia artistic alienation mysticism and faith
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Synopsis

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, memo

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