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Nostalghia, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky, is a meditative European art-house drama about a Russian poet traveling through Italy while struggling with spiritual despair, exile, and longing for home. Through slow pacing, metaphysical imagery, and philosophical reflection, the film explores faith, memory, and the human need for transcendence. It stands as one of Tarkovskys most personal and contemplative works. Från IMDB: A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy researching the life of an 18th-century composer, and instead meet a ruminative madman who tells the poet how the world may be saved. Detta är en importfilm. De har oftast inte svensk text
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Nostalgia (1983)
124 min
Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov journeys through Italy with his interpreter Eugenia to research the life of an 18th-century Russian composer who once lived abroad. Isolated and consumed by an unrelenting longing for his homeland, Andrei becomes drawn to Domenico, a radical mystic obsessed with spiritual redemption. Through austere imagery and extended temporal rhythms, Tarkovsky examines exile, memory, and the profound melancholy of being unable to belong fully to either place or language.