Drama / Psychological / Poetic
Soviet Union / Italy,
1983, 127 min
Directed by:
Andrei Arsenyevich TarkovskyCinematography:
Giuseppe LanciComposer:
Claude DebussyCast:
Oleg Yankovskiy, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano, Patrizia Terreno, Laura De Marchi, Delia Boccardo, Milena Vukotic, Raffaele Di Mario, Rate Furlan (more)Plots(1)
At a spa in the Tuscan Hills, a Russian poet and musicologist, researching the life of an 18th century composer, meets a mysterious man who is convinced that the end of the world is nigh. The Russian, Andrei Gorchakov (Oleg Yankovsky), is asked to cross an ancient sulphur pool carrying a lighted candle as an act of faith. Tarkovsky's first film outside the USSR is full of personal and Christian symbols and works as a study of such themes as memory, melancholia and disenchantment with the material world. (Kino Lorber)
(more)Awards
- Winner
- Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
- 1983 - Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (Fipresci Prize - Official Competition)
- 1983 - Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (Grand Prize for Creative Cinema (1983))
- 1983 - Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (Prize of the Ecumenical Jury)
- 1983 - Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (Golden Palm - Official Competition)