Overview
Plot
Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov travels through Italy with his interpreter Eugenia to research an 18th-century composer. Longing for home, he becomes drawn to Domenico, a radical mystic obsessed with spiritual redemption.
- Directors
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Cast
- Oleg Yankovsky, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano, Patrizia Terreno, Laura De Marchi, Delia Boccardo, Milena Vukotić, Raffaele Di Mario, Rate Furlan, Livio Galassi, Elena Magoia, Piero Vida
- Country
- Italy, Soviet Union
- Genre
- Drama, Romance
- Release date
- 1983-05-01
- Studios
- Sovinfilm, Opera Film Produzione, RAI
Plot
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Nostalgia Plot and Cast
While researching the life of an 18th-century Russian composer who lived abroad, poet Andrei Gorchakov tours Italy with interpreter Eugenia. Isolated and consumed by longing for his homeland, he encounters Domenico, a radical mystic fixated on spiritual redemption. The film explores exile, memory, and the melancholy of belonging fully to neither place nor language.
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