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  • Actors: Oleg Yankovskiy, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano, Patrizia Terreno, Laura De Marchi
  • Directors: Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Writers: Andrei Tarkovsky, Tonino Guerra
  • Producers: Daniel Toscan du Plantier, Franco Casati, Manolo Bolognini, Renzo Rossellini
  • Format: Black & White, Colour, Full Screen, PAL
  • Language Italian, Russian
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Artificial Eye
  • DVD Release Date: 24 Feb 2003
  • Run Time: 120 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00007KFMZ
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 8,573 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Special Features

4:3 Full Frame
Italian
Region 2
Dolby Digital 2.0 Italian
Dolby Digital 2.0
Documentary Tempo Di Viaggio By Andrei Tarkovsky
Tarkovsky In Nostalgia By Donatella Baglivo
Filmographies
Production Notes
Stills Gallery
English


Synopsis

Director Andrei Tarkovsky recasts his lifelong cinematic motif of humanity's quest for faith in the waterlogged and mist-ensconced countryside of Italy for his philosophical masterpiece NOSTALGIA. Andrei Gorchakov (Oleg Yankovsky) is a misanthropic Russian scholar researching the life of an exiled Russian composer who committed suicide. With the help of his beautiful guide, Eugenia (Domiziana Giordano), Andrei visits mystical and religious sites on the trail of the late composer's legacy. In the shadow of the doomed composer's memory, Andrei finds himself crippled by a melancholy nostalgia for his Russian homeland, only to discover redemption in the form of a madman, Domenico (Erland Josephson), whom he encounters at St. Catherine's pool, a religious site in Sienna. Domenico, a former professor who once locked his family away for seven years in anticipation of Armageddon, now leads a seemingly insane existence, believing that if he can travel across the pool with a lighted candle, he can save all of humanity. As in his mystical film THE MIRROR, Tarkovsky weaves a dense, mediatative pattern of images--freely mixing past and present, dream and reality, color and black and white, landscape and architecture--with the scholar and the madman acting as allegorical players in a metaphysical trial by fire and water.

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31 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars "Nostalgia" plus 2 rare documentaries, 11 Mar 2003
By Mr. DS Graham "daniel_sgraham" (London, UK) - See all my reviews
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This DVD edition of "Nostalgia" comes with two rare documentaries made at the time of the film's production. "Tempo di Viaggio" and "Tarkovsky In Nostalgia". Both offer fascinating insight into Tarkovsky's working method and include footage of him talking with Italian script-writing maestro Tonino Guerra, who has worked with Fellini, Antonioni and Angelopolous.

The picture quality of the film is excellent but there is a major drawback regarding the soundtrack. For the first 30 minutes of the film (Disc 1), there is a distractingly audible crackle and hiss noise. This is completely unacceptable in a DVD format and I am very curious to know if other buyers have experienced a similar problem with their copy.

Apart from this serious fault, "Nostalgia" plus 2 documentaries is a most welcome addition to the Tarkovsky DVD library.

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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A sumptuous visual exploration of memory and exile, 29 Nov 2000
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This review is from: Nostalgia [VHS] [1983] (VHS Tape)
Nostalgia is a film brimming with sumptuous images, dream like and evocative. Set in Italy, a visiting Russian poet (a thinly disguised Tarkovsky) questions the nature of memory and exile. Throughout the film he is haunted by flashbacks of his past and home, as he wanders through the landscapes of Tuscany and 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 and newcomers alike.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Visually Stunning Masterpiece, 24 April 2006
By L. Davidson (Belfast, N.Ireland) - See all my reviews
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I've seen all of Tarkovsky's films bar "The Sacrifice" and I think "Nostalgia" is possibly the best of them all. Deeply spiritual and pregnant with meaning, "Nostalgia" features some breathtaking cinematography and contains many memorable, visually arresting scenes, such as Eugenia's visit to the church, Gorchakov's meeting with Domenico in his dilapidated house, the flooded church ruins, Domenico's rant atop a statue of Marcus Aurelius in Rome ,Gorchakov's walk through St Catherine's Pool with a candle ,and many more. "Nostalgia" is a film about alienation in all it's forms; it highlights the problems of living in an alien culture and homesickness, alienation from other people, alienation from society and ultimately from life itself. The central character ,Gorchakov, goes on a spiritual journey as the film progresses , especially after his meeting with the lunatic mystic, Domenico. Haunted by memories of his family in Russia and facing the frustrated ire of his attractive Italian interpreter ,Eugenia, for not "trying it on" with her, Gorchakov finds consolation in metaphysical reflection ,an exploration of the religious vision of life and ultimately a search for Salvation. "Nostalgia" features many of Tarkovsky's favourite images; running water, horses,dogs, rain, mists and spilt milk and the director, through his characters and cinematography ,seems to be making a pantheistic plea for humanity to re-embrace nature ,which is equated closely with the Divine in this film. Every image and sound is exquisitely sculpted by Tarkovsky in "Nostalgia" and the acting is excellent as well. Like all of Tarkovsky's films, "Nostalgia" is thought provoking and profound and undoubtedly will repay multiple viewings.
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