NOSTALGIA (DVD PAL)

Drama, 127 min. Opera film Produzione, RAI, Italy-Russia, 1983. Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. Starring: Oleg Yankovsky, E. Jozefson, D. Jordano, P. Tereno and others. Language: Italian (with Russian subtitles), Russian dubbing. Russian writer Andrei Gorchakov comes to Italy in search of biographical traces of the great musician Pavel Sosnovsky. He is searching for things left over from the days when the musician lived as an emigrant, and this is how he meets the translator Eugenia, who tries to understand the reason for her Russian friend's sadness. Soon, Gorchakov begins to understand that the story of the musician is part of his own: he feels like a stranger in Italy, but he can't return home. The hero is seized by a painful numbness, and his homesickness becomes a true disease... The film is dedicated to the memory of the director's mother, Maria Ivanovna Vishnyakovaya.