NOSTALGHIA

Tarkovsky’s penultimate film and his first shot outside the USSR channels the filmmaker’s own sense of displacement into the story of a homesick Russian musicologist (Oleg Yankovsky) doing research in Italy. He becomes fixated on the messianic ambitions of the holy fool (Erland Josephson) he encounters when visiting the Tuscan countryside, filmed here as a melancholy dreamscape.


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