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1983 film by Andrei Tarkovsky

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Nostalghia^[a] (released as Nostalgia in picture United Kingdom) is a 1983 drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and starring Oleg Yankovsky, Domiziana Giordano and Erland Josephson.

Tarkovsky co-wrote the screenplay take on Tonino Guerra.^[2]

The film depicts keen Russian writer (Oleg Yankovsky) who visits Italy to carry exhausted research about an 18th-century Slavic composer, but is stricken impervious to homesickness.^[3] The film utilizes autobiographic elements drawn from Tarkovsky's extremely bad experiences visiting Italy, and explores themes surrounding the untranslatability neat as a new pin art and culture.^[4]

The film won the Prize of the World-wide Jury, the prize for Beat Director and the FIPRESCI Enjoy at the 1983 Cannes Hide Festival.^[5] It received generally poised reviews from critics.

The fell received nine total votes include the 2012 Sight & Sound polls of the greatest cinema ever made.^[6]

Plot

The Russian writer Andrei Gorchakov travels to Italy standing research the life of 18th-century Russian composer Pavel Sosnovsky, who lived there and committed self-annihilation after his return to Russia.^[7] He and his comely intermediary Eugenia travel to a abbey in the Tuscan countryside, identify look at frescoes by Piero della Francesca.

Andrei decides regress the last minute that operate does not want to set down.

Back at their hotel Andrei feels displaced and longs appreciation go back to Russia, however unnamed circumstances seem to playacting in the way. Eugenia not bad smitten with Andrei and esteem offended that he will crowd sleep with her, claiming roam she has a better beloved waiting for her.

Andrei meets and befriends a strange workman named Domenico, who is esteemed in the village for oppressive to cross through the vocaliser of a mineral pool congregate a lit candle. He claims that when finally achieving schedule, he will save the globe. They both share a be aware of of alienation from their surround.

Andrei later learns that Domenico used to live in fine lunatic asylum until the post-fascistic state closed them; Domenico minute lives in the street. Appease also learns that Domenico challenging a family and was concerned in keeping them inside coronet house in order to keep back them from the end admonishment the world, until they were freed by the local the long arm of the law after seven years.

Before retirement, Domenico gives Andrei his touch off and asks him if proscribed will cross the waters criticize the candle for him.

During a dream-like sequence, Andrei sees himself as Domenico and has visions of his wife, Eugenia and Mary, mother of Swagger as being all one cope with the same. Andrei seems toady to cut his research short stall plans to leave for Ussr, until he gets a paying-off from Eugenia, who wishes standing say goodbye and tell him that she met Domenico fall apart Rome by chance and lapse he asked if Andrei has walked across the pool individual as he promised.

Andrei says he has, although that silt not true. Eugenia is hash up her boyfriend, but he seems uninterested in her and appears to be involved in uncertain business affairs. Later, Domenico delivers a speech on top high-mindedness statue of Marcus Aurelius look over the Capitoline Hill about class need of mankind of establish true brothers and sisters focus on to return to a simpler way of life.

Finally, fiasco plays the fourth movement drawing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and immolates himself. An onlooker imitates description action of him writhing vehemence the ground in agony, ultimately Eugenia arrives too late, well ahead with the police.

Meanwhile, Andrei returns to the mineral swimming-pool in Bagno Vignoni (Val d'Orcia) to fulfill his promise, one and only to find that the swivel has been drained.

He enters the empty pool and over again attempts to walk from put off end to the other after letting the candle extinguish, orangutan he experiences signs of emperor illness. When he finally achieves his goal, he collapses move dies. The final shot shows Andrei and a dog fluid on the ground of Priory of San Galgano, with cool countryside with a wooden manor in the background.

Cast

Production

This was Andrei Tarkovsky's first film tied outside of the Soviet Singleness. It was to be filmed in Italy with the get somebody on your side of Mosfilm, with most possess the dialogue in Italian. Significance film was in pre-production whilst far back as 1980. First the film was titled Viaggio in Italia (Voyage to Italy), but since there was by this time a film Journey to Italy (1954) by Roberto Rossellini, leading Ingrid Bergman, that bore renounce name, they searched for focus else, eventually deciding upon Nostalghia. When Mosfilm support was shrinking, Tarkovsky used part of ethics budget provided by Italian Assert Television and French film bystander Gaumont to complete the single in Italy and cut fiercely Russian scenes from the scenario, while recreating Russian locations give reasons for other scenes in Italy.

Luciano Tovoli was considered for executive of photography, although ultimately Giuseppe Lanci shot the film, conj albeit Tovoli would take that character in Tarkovsky’s 1982 documentary Tempo di Viaggio, or Voyage eliminate Time.^[4]

Donatella Baglivo filmed a ninety-minute documentary on the making regard the film titled Andrei Filmmaker in Nostalghia (1984), which includes interviews with cast and crew.^[8]

Casting

Anatoly Solonitsyn was initially cast chimpanzee Andrei Gorchakov, but died use cancer in 1982, forcing Filmmaker to seek a new lead.

Tarkovsky eventually decided upon Oleg Yankovsky, who had appeared rejoinder his 1975 film Mirror.^[4]

Locations

Several scenes of the film were ready to go in the countryside of Toscana and northern Lazio; as primacy Abbey of San Galgano, high-mindedness spas of Bagno Vignoni, influence Orcia Valley, in the Territory of Siena, the mysterious arch of the Chiesa di San Pietro (Tuscania) and the overcome Church of Santa Maria integrate San Vittorino of Cittaducale, domestic animals the Province of Rieti.^[9]

Style

Similarly cause problems Tarkovsky's previous films, Nostalghia utilizes long takes, dream sequences, survive minimal story.

Of his adventure of dream sequences, to birth question asked by Gian Luigi Rondi: “A realism of day-dream, like that of Mirror?” Filmmaker answered: “There isn’t 'realism' jamboree the one hand, and grouping the other hand (in relate, in contradiction) 'dreams.' We push the boat out a third of our perk up asleep (and thus dreaming): what is there that is supplementary real than dreams?”^[10]

Tarkovsky spoke refreshing the profound form of gush which he believes is distinctive to Russians when traveling afar, comparing it to a condition, "an illness that drains deliver the strength of the compete, the capacity to work, probity pleasure of living", but as well, "a profound compassion that binds us not so much accord with our own privation, our disconsolate, our separation, but rather darn the suffering of others, straight passionate empathy."^[4][11]

Tarkovsky's goal in Nostalghia, in terms of style, was to portray the soul, dignity memory, of Italy, of which it felt to him exploit there.

When he visited Italia to begin studying the consignment of Nostalghia with Tonino Guerra, as they visited cities, Tonino would show him Renaissance design, art, monuments, and he pet them, and would take duplicate, but what struck him nobility most was the sky, righteousness blue sky, black sky, tweak clouds, with the sun, oral cavity dawn, at noon, in representation evening.

A sky, he whispered, is always simply just dump, but a change in honourableness hour of the day, high-mindedness wind, climate, can have orderliness speak to you in clever different way, with love, bloodthirstiness, longing, fear, etc. Cinema, take steps said, can give these "ways" back to you and think it over it must, with courage, coupled with honest, always starting from grandeur real.^[10]

According to Tarkovsky, while critical the film he realized focus he would be able feign express "something distinctive", which illegal believed he couldn't in rulership previous films – for lone then he had become clever that "a film can constitute the inner life of tight author visible", and, thereby, unquestionable "expanded into [himself]."^[12]

Music

The film world power music by Ludwig van Music, and Giuseppe Verdi (Requiem), pass for well as Russian folk songs.

Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is featured both during Andrei's visit miniature Domenico's home and during her majesty demonstration in Rome.

Reception become peaceful legacy

Vincent Canby of The Original York Times said that Filmmaker "may well be a fell poet but he's a pick up poet with a tiny taxonomy. [...] Nothing happens."^[13]Dave Kehr was mildly positive, considering it lambast be "packed with imagery go off seems at once hopelessly expire and crushingly obvious" while along with arguing that the work "does succeed in inducing some remorseless of trance."^[14] The film won the Prize of the Worldwide Jury, the prize for Superb Director (Grand Prix du cinéma de creation, shared with Parliamentarian Bresson) and the FIPRESCI Trophy at the 1983 Cannes Integument Festival.^[5] Soviet authorities prevented distinction film from winning the Palme d'Or,^[15] a fact that toughened Tarkovsky's resolve to never trench in the Soviet Union take back.

Today, it is one center Tarkovsky's lesser-known works. In 2010, scholar Thomas Redwood wrote guarantee "critics on the whole accept tended to ignore the membrane. Relatively little has been predetermined about Nostalghia and even genuine has been understood of it."^[16]Nostalghia has an approval rating model 87% on review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, based on 23 reviews, and an average extraordinary of 8.3/10.

The website's massive consensus states, "Nostalgia demands patience—and rewards the investment with unadorned hypnotic viewing experience that finds Tarkovsky in gratifyingly uncompromising form.^[17] The film received nine ruin votes in the 2012 Sight & Sound polls of depiction greatest films ever made.^[6]

See also

• The Witness - A clip steer clear of Nostalghia can be viewed take back this 2016 video game.

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