Nostalghia

Nostalghia

  • Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Writer: Andrei Tarkovsky,Tonino Guerra
  • Countries of origin: Italy, Soviet Union
  • Language: Russian, Italian
  • Release date: March 1992
  • Sound mix: Mono
  • Aspect ratio: 1.66 : 1
  • Also known as: Nostalgia
  • "Nostalghia" is a feature film directed by Andrey Arsenyevich Tarkovsky, starring Oleg Yankovskiy , Domiziana Giordano , and Erland Josephson . It was released in the United States on January 8, 1984.
    The film tells the story of a Russian poet who went to write a biography of a Russian musician who had been to Italy and died in a foreign land.

    Details

    • Release date March 1992
    • Filming locations Bagno Vignoni, San Quirico d'Orcia, Siena, Tuscany, Italy
    • Production companies Rai 2, Sovinfilm, Mosfilm

    Box office

    Gross US & Canada

    $41,014

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $11,537

    Gross worldwide

    $55,269

    Movie reviews

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    • By Casper 2022-06-15 15:36:51

      Nostalghia--Unforgettable And Haunting Past

      I'm fed up with all your beauties.

      I don't want to take it anymore. All this beauty of yours... I can't take it anymore.

      I just can't tell you this. It makes me feel gloomy, grey, lethargic, vacuous, full of dank mists and fantasies about women.

    • By Dee 2022-04-24 07:01:18

      nostalgia is a poem

      A palace-level work like "Nostalgia" is full of ideas, and it requires a high threshold to understand. Around the time I didn't understand. Teacher Wang watched it for the second time and was amazed at it.

      In the church, the female interpreter asked the priest, "Why do women only pray so devoutly?" "Because women have to bear children and raise them as adults, so patience and sacrifice are required."

      Dominico, a "madman" with...

    • By Mckenzie 2022-04-24 07:01:18

      Comprehension at first viewing

      I just finished watching Nostalgia and I felt a little hazy when I finished watching it. Then I looked for a lot of movie reviews and analysis, and I probably have a little understanding of a few movie clips. At present, I feel that this movie is a bit like A film of spirit and faith, in addition to the apparent nostalgia of the male protagonist for the superficial thoughts of his hometown and relatives, there is also a deeper spiritual nostalgia. Like in the end, why did...

    • By Alberto 2022-04-24 07:01:18

      Understanding at first glance

      I just finished watching Nostalgia and I felt a little hazy when I finished watching it. Then I looked for a lot of movie reviews and analysis, and I probably have a little understanding of a few movie clips. At present, I feel that this movie is a bit like A film of spirit and faith, in addition to the apparent nostalgia of the male protagonist for the superficial thoughts of his hometown and relatives, there is also a deeper spiritual nostalgia. Like in the end, why did...

    • By Micaela 2022-04-23 07:03:41

      From a symbolic point of view

      To communicate, to convey human emotions and information, you must use "symbols". However, the rational character of "symbol" itself constrains perceptual expression. For art, "symbol" contradicts "creativity". The so-called "audio-visual language" is the "symbolic" embodiment of the film itself. Just like "1+1=1" in the movie, the director wants to use "symbols" to create "his own symbols", and wants to use "own symbols" to oppose "symbols". "Symbols" are universal and...

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    • By Adalberto 2022-03-28 09:01:08

      The whole film uses a lot of long shots, the misty hot springs, and the villages are the wet and lonely hearts of people after leaving their hometowns. Most of the people who go to church are women, but this does not mean that women have more faith than men, but they have more hopes than men. The characters and shots in the film are slow and heavy, and the narratives of poets, musicians, and writers are similar to monologues. They talk to themselves alone, no one...

    • By Carmel 2022-03-28 09:01:08

      Eternal nostalgia · mission of existentialism / How many poems can a person write in his life? When will you be able to surround yourself with your mother? If you can't return to your hometown, you can only hold your soul in a dream....

    • By Cyrus 2022-03-28 09:01:08

      A movie worth thinking about, people who are not there, thinking about the world that is there, thinking about Heidegger, Nietzsche. The rhythm is extremely slow, the picture is dark, the dialogue is bland as water, and the narration is speculative, which constantly stimulates your thinking and thinking, and finally becomes a...

    • By Lessie 2022-03-28 09:01:08

      In an infinitely close to eternity time, all the jumps seem so natural. Every time I watch a movie of the old tower is like a pilgrimage, of course I mean when I'm not very sleepy...

    • By Cameron 2022-03-28 09:01:08

      Two very hard hours, like watching Rembrandt who can move for 120 minutes. I always feel offended by the gaze in the camera, because the narrative is like walking on thin ice, I can't know the object of the gaze from the camera, so my eyes go through the screen and go straight to the other side. generally. It wasn't until Dominique said that a person's life is from water to fire to ashes, that he was a little...

    Movie plot

    The Russian poet Andre (Oleg Yankovskiy ) , accompanied by a beautiful female translator Eugene Giordano ( Domiziana Giordano ) , traveled to Italy to find out the life of an eighteenth-century Russian composer. Together they visited a rural church full of religious imagery and stopped in an ancient town with natural hot springs. At this time, he met Dominic (Erland Josephson) , a madman who is not understood by the world . The...
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    Background creation

    The film is named "Nostalghia" because it covers Andrey Arsenyevich Tarkovsky's memories of his hometown   . When Andrey Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was filming "Nostalghia", the Soviet authorities had banned him from filming, and the director had to leave his 11-year-old son. Going to Italy for filming work also led to his son being taken hostage by the Soviet government. The director’s content in the Russian part of the film (the play of...
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    Evaluation action

    The meaning of "Nostalghia" is straightforward. It is a film that explores the depths of the spirit. There are many elements in the content shown in the film that express Tarkovsky himself. The film creates a poetic and dreamlike atmosphere, expressing the homesickness of the creators of the projection and the care for the human spirit. The life of the protagonist and the life of the director in reality have the same effect. The...
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    Movie quotes

    • Eugenia: You're a funk! Full of complexes. You're not free. You all seem to want freedom but when you get it you don't know what to do with it or what it is.

    • Burning Man: Oh mother! The air is that light thing that moves around your head and becomes clearer when you laugh!

    • Andrei Gorchakov: Smoke. When I don't know what to say I ask for a cigarette too. But I never learned to smoke. It's too hard.

      Domenico: You have to learn to not smoke, to do important things.