Nostalghia
New York Film Festival Essentials
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2h 6m
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky • Arthouse • 1983 • Italy, Russia • Italian, Russian with English subtitles
Starring Oleg Yankovskiy, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano
In Andrei Tarkovsky’s first film made outside of the USSR, a Russian intellectual conducting research in Italy becomes overwhelmed by a melancholic longing for home. Winner of three awards at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival, his late masterpiece is a mystical and mysterious collision of East and West, shot with the tactile beauty that only Tarkovsky can provide.
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