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)Cast
![Oleg Yankovskiy](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/018/803/18803797_156f49.jpg)
Oleg Yankovskiy
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Doctor Zhivago (2005) (series)
A Hunting Accident (1978)
The Mirror (1975)
![Erland Josephson](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/271/271221_9339ac.jpg)
Erland Josephson
Sweden
Best movies:
Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
The Ox (1991)
![Domiziana Giordano](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/031/567/31567831_1e063a.jpg)
Domiziana Giordano
Italy
Best movies:
Nostalgia (1983)
All My Friends Part 2 (1982)
Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994)
Patrizia Terreno
Best movies:
Nostalgia (1983)
The Meadow (1979)
Laura De Marchi
Italy
Best movies:
Nostalgia (1983)
I Am Afraid (1977)
Kaos, contes siciliens (1984)
![Delia Boccardo](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/165/987/165987110_04ac69.jpg)
Delia Boccardo
Italy
Best movies:
Nostalgia (1983)
The Octopus (1984) (series)
Silent Action (1975)
![Milena Vukotic](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/000/270/270275_4f5ab7.jpg)
Milena Vukotic
Italy
Best movies:
The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
Nostalgia (1983)
All My Friends Part 2 (1982)
Raffaele Di Mario
Italy
Best movies:
Nostalgia (1983)
Rate Furlan
Italy
Best movies:
Nostalgia (1983)
Marco Polo (1982) (series)
The Belly of an Architect (1987)
Livio Galassi
Italy
Best movies:
Nostalgia (1983)
Elena Magoia
Italy
Best movies:
Nostalgia (1983)
Piero Vida
Italy
Best movies:
1900 (1976)
Nostalgia (1983)
The Moro Affair (1986)
![Maria Cumani Quasimodo](http://image.pmgstatic.com/cache/resized/w88h116crop/files/images/creator/photos/036/677/36677334_321c00.jpg)
Maria Cumani Quasimodo
Italy
Best movies:
Nostalgia (1983)
The Rise of Louis XIV (1966) (TV movie)
Juliet of the Spirits (1965)