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Release Date: 1983

Cast: Patrizia Terreno, Domiziana Giordano, Delia Boccardo, Milena Vukotic, Erland Josephson, Oleg Yankovsky

Categories: Movies, Drama Film, Romantic Drama, Romance Film, World Cinema

Nostalghia (Russian: Ностальгия) is a 1983 Soviet film, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and starring Oleg Yankovsky, Domiziana Giordano and Erland Josephson. The plot of the film centers around the word nostalgia, which in both Russian and Italian means a longing for a place or person -- a good English translation would be homesickness. The title of the film, when written in Latin letters, is the Italian transcription of the Russian word. The opening scene is a single shot showing a family and their dog descending a hill, a large tree in the foreground, the distant countryside... MORE

Nostalghia (Russian: Ностальгия) is a 1983 Soviet film, directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and starring Oleg Yankovsky, Domiziana Giordano and Erland Josephson. The plot of the film centers around the word nostalgia, which in both Russian and Italian means a longing for a place or person -- a good English translation would be homesickness. The title of the film, when written in Latin letters, is the Italian transcription of the Russian word. The opening scene is a single shot showing a family and their dog descending a hill, a large tree in the foreground, the distant countryside vanishing into the rolling fog. The camera pushes in imperceptibly, but continuously from the beginning. On the soundtrack, possibly diegetic, a sole woman sings. Meanwhile, the film credits scroll up, superimposed over the scene. The family and dog, upon reaching the area in front of a hut, stop moving. Verdi's Messa da Requiem fades in, overlapping for a brief moment with the woman singing. Once the foreground tree fully disappears, the scene freezes; the credits continue until the title appears, and the scene fades to black. The Requiem continues an audible transition to the second scene. The Russian writer LESS