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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305069652
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305069654
Label: Fox Lorber
Manufacturer: Fox Lorber
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Fox Lorber
Release Date: October 07, 1998
Running Time: 120 minutes
Sales Rank: 53722
Studio: Fox Lorber
Theatrical Release Date: 1992-03
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
This is another haunting film by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky--his first made outside of the Soviet Union. Like all of his films, Nostalghia has a mystical quality, as it follows the spiritual journey of a poet on a research mission in Italy. While traveling with his beautiful Italian interpreter in a Tuscan village, the poet suddenly becomes transfixed by memories of Russia and his family. A local mystic helps him see the right path in his life. Once again, Tarkovsky's imagery is gorgeous, and the narrative insightful. The past and the present collide in existential angst. Truly a cinematic feast for those interested in exploring life's deepest concerns. --Bill Desowitz
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - There is beauty in Nostalghia.
When Andrei Tarkovsky went to Italy in 1982 to start shooting Nostalghia, he vowed never to return to his home in the Soviet Union. Although I do not profess to fully comprehend Tarkovsky's film, which won the Grand Prix Spécial du Jury at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival, it is not essential to understand the film to appreciate its breathtaking visual qualities. Words fall short in describing this film, which tells the story of a Russian writer, Andrei Gorchakov (Oleg Yankovsky) who, like Tarkovsky, ... Read More
Rating:  - There are many things worse than death
And watching this labored, depressing, overlong dirge is definitely one of them. If you were thinking about all the nasty things you can do to your enemies, scratch even the worst ones off your list and send them this DVD. I'm coming rapidly to the conclusion that Russian art has scraped through the bottom of the barrel and into the bargain basement bin.
Rating: - Corrected Film Year
Just a correction to the date of this film: Nostalghia was originally released in 1985. It was Tarkovsky's first film outside of the Soviet Union. The Sacrifice was released in 1986. Andrei Tarkovsky died of cancer in 1986.
This is a beautiful film and closest that film has ever come to being pure art.
Rating: - One of the most beautiful films ever committed to celluloid...
This is Tarkovsky's most underrated film. It is also his most beautiful, with some of the greatest cinemtography ever committed to celluloid (Giuesppe Lanci was the cinematographer). The film concerns itself with a Russian coming to Italy to research on a Russian composer who died there. As others have pointed out, the word "Nostalghia" is the Italian pronuciation, and the film is about nostalghia for one's homeland, specifically Russian nostlaghia. Tarkovsky has said that Russians, more than other ... Read More
Rating: - Transcendental image-wizardry from the other side of the pool
A quite, withdrawn man lights a candle and walks with it through a old, abandoned, disintegrated swimmingpool. With his other hand he protects the flame from the wind.
But the wind sneaks through his fingers and blows out the candle. The quiet, withdrawn man turns around, walks back to the edge of the pool, lights the candle, and walks again through the shallow, slack water towards the other side once more.
But again the wind gets behind his hand and blows out the candle. Grey-faced but without ... Read More
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