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Synopsis: The Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov, accompanied by guide and translator Eugenia, is traveling through Italy researching the life of an 18th-century Russian composer. In an ancient spa town, he meets the lunatic Domenico, who years earlier had imprisoned his own family in his house for seven years to save them from the evils of the world. Seeing some deep truth in Domenico's act, Andrei becomes drawn to him. In a series of dreams, the poet's nostalgia for his homeland and his longing for his wife, his ambivalent feelings for Eugenia and Italy, and his sense of kinship with Domenico become intertwined.
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Andrei Tarkovsky
Production: Kino Lorber
  3 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
8.2
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
NOT RATED
Year:
1983
125 min
$5,233
3,881 Views


What?

The bicycle?

Before, with your family

I'm tired

Where are you?

Come in!

Did you hear that?

It's Beethoven!

One drop plus one drop

makes a bigger drop, not two

May I?

-Smoke

When I don't know what to say

I ask for a cigarette too

But I never learned to smoke

It's too hard

You have to learn

to not smoke,

to do important things

Such as?

Some wine?

We need bigger ideas

What?

I was selfish

I wanted to save my family

Everyone must be saved,

the whole world

How?

It's simple

You see the candle?

All right

Why do you say "all right"?

You're confusing me

You cross the water with

the lighted candle

Which water?

The hot water

St. Catherine's pool

by the hotel

the steaming water

All right, when?

Now

I can't do it

I don't want

When I light the candle

and get into the water

they pull me out

They kick me out

And they shout, "You're crazy!"

Get it?

All right.

-All right?

It's all wrong!

Help me

Help me.

-All right, but

Of course

The taxi's here for the Russian

who's going to Bagno Vignoni

It's late

I must go

Thank you

Why me, of all people?

You've children?

-Two, a girl and a boy

Is your wife pretty?

You know the Madonna of Childbirth?

By Piero della Francesca

She's like that but all black

Go with the candle

We're planning

something big in Rome

Zoe!

Where are you?

Answer me!

I'm scared of being alone

I know what you're thinking,

but that's enough now

It's wrong to keep thinking

the same thing

What do you want?

Dad

Is this the end of the world?

Are we going?

Stand back!

They're letting them out!

I knew they were in there

I used to listen in secret

The water had run out

in my bathroom

Do you mind?

I thought you'd left

No, I'm still here

Good.

-You don't look pleased

Look what he gave me

Who?

-Domenico!

You're a funk!

Full of complexes

You're not free

You all seem to want freedom

but when you get it you don't know

what to do with it

or what it is

That's enough

It must be this country,

the air one breathes here

Because in Moscow

I met some wonderful men

What are you all after? This?

Not you!

You're a kind of saint

You're interested in Madonnas

You're different!

One "intellectual" tried

to keep me locked up!

Can't I ever meet the right man?

I don't mean you, you're the worst

But I swear I'll find

my kind of man!

And I have, he's waiting for me

in Rome

You dress badly too

And you're boring

You're the kind I'd sleep with

rather than explain why

I don't feel like it

What are you saying?

Don't you see?

I found myself in a most

embarrassing position!

I've had enough!

I can't take any more!

I'd like to sleep for 10 days

and wipe you out

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Andrei Tarkovsky

Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (Russian: Андре́й Арсе́ньевич Тарко́вский, IPA: [ɐnˈdrʲej ɐrˈsʲenʲjɪvʲɪtɕ tɐrˈkofskʲɪj]; 4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) was a Russian filmmaker, writer, film editor, film theorist, theatre and opera director. Tarkovsky's films include Ivan's Childhood (1962), Andrei Rublev (1966), Solaris (1972), Mirror (1975), and Stalker (1979). He directed the first five of his seven feature films in the Soviet Union; his last two films, Nostalghia (1983) and The Sacrifice (1986), were produced in Italy and Sweden, respectively. His work is characterized by long takes, unconventional dramatic structure, distinctly authored use of cinematography, and spiritual and metaphysical themes. Tarkovsky's works Andrei Rublev, Solaris, Mirror, and Stalker are regularly listed among the greatest films of all time. His contribution to cinema was so influential that works done in a similar way are described as Tarkovskian. Ingmar Bergman said of him: Tarkovsky for me is the greatest (director), the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as a dream. Contrarily, however, Bergman conceded the truth in the claim made by a critic who wrote that "with Autumn Sonata Bergman does Bergman", adding, "Tarkovsky began to make Tarkovsky films, and that Fellini began to make Fellini films [...] Buñuel nearly always made Buñuel films." more…

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