Nostalgia

Name: Nostalgia
Genre: Drama, Romance
Released: 1983-05-01
Duration: 2 h 4 min
Rating: 7.9
Cast: Oleg Yankovskiy, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano, Patrizia Terreno, Laura De Marchi

Ностальгия (1983)

Timing: 2:4 (124 min)

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Actors and characters

Video for the film Nostalgia — Nostalghia - Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky

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Photo 40

Release date

1983-05-01

Country

Italy, Soviet Union

Production

RAI, Sovinfilm, Opera Film Produzione

Genre

Drama, Romance

Budget

$875 000

Box office

$18 846

Website

https://mubi.com/en/us/films/nostalghia

Director

Andrei Tarkovsky

Actors

Oleg Yankovskiy, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano, Patrizia Terreno, Laura De Marchi, Delia Boccardo, Milena Vukotić, Lia Tanzi, Sergio Fiorentini
All actors and roles (9)

Scenario

Producer

Daniel Toscan du Plantier, Manolo Bolognini, Renzo Rossellini

Camera operator

Giuseppe Lanci

Composer

Artist

Andrea Crisanti

Audition

Editing

Amedeo Salfa, Erminia Marani, Filippo Campus
Whole Team (37)

Short description

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, memory, and the profound melancholy of being unable to belong fully to either place or language.

What's left behind the scenes

To create a suitable image, Tarkovsky took Yankovsky to Italy and left him alone in one of the hotels for several days.
The main role in the film was to be played by Andrei Tarkovsky's friend and favorite actor, Anatoly Solonitsyn, but he died of lung cancer in June 1982, even before the script was written. Later, the role was offered to Oleg Yankovsky, and the script was written specifically for him.
Yankovsky’s agonizing, bordering on fainting both for the actor and the audience, walk with a lit candle along the bottom of the pool, the filming of the water, and the final frames of the film are considered a classic of world-class cinematography.
To create a suitable image, Tarkovsky took Yankovsky to Italy and left him alone in a hotel for several days.
The main role in the film was supposed to be played by Andrei Tarkovsky's friend and favorite actor Anatoly Solonitsyn, but he died even before the script was written. Later, the role was offered to Oleg Yankovsky, and the script was written specifically for him.