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1 online resource (streaming video file) (126 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
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020548 |
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digital |
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video file MPEG-4 Flash |
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Title from title frames. |
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Originally produced by Kino Lorber Edu in 1983. |
| Summary |
Nostalghia is Andrei Tarkovsky's brooding late masterpiece, a darkly poetic vision of exile. It was the first of his features to be made outside of Russia, the home to which he would never return. Tarkovsky explained that in Russian the word "nostalghia" conveys "the love for your homeland and the melancholy that arises from being far away." This debilitating form of homesickness is embodied in the film by Andrei (Oleg Yankovsky, The Mirror), a Russian intellectual doing research in Italy. He becomes obsessed with the Botticelli-like beauty of his translator Eugenia (Domiziana Giordano), as well as with the apocalyptic ramblings of a self-destructive wanderer named Domenico (Erland Josephson, The Sacrifice). Written with frequent Michelangelo Antonioni collaborator Tonino Guerra (L'Avventura), NOSTALGHIA is a mystical and mysterious collision of East and West, shot with the tactile beauty that only Tarkovsky can provide. As J. Hoberman wrote, "NOSTALGHIA is not so much a movie as a place to inhabit for two hours." |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Poets, Russian -- Italy -- Drama.
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Immigrants -- Soviet Union -- Drama.
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Nostalgia -- Drama.
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Immigrants.
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Nostalgia.
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Poets, Russian.
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Italy.
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Soviet Union.
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Feature films.
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Tarkovskiĭ, Andreĭ Arsenʹevich, 1932-1986 film director.
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Giordano, Domiziana, 1960- actor.
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I͡Ankovskiĭ, Oleg, 1944-2009 actor.
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Josephson, Erland, 1923-2012 actor.
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Kino Lorber Edu (Firm), Distributor.
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Kanopy (Firm), Distributor.
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| Music No. |
1253424 Kanopy |
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