In Andrei Tarkovsky's first film made outside of the USSR, a Russian intellectual conducting research in Italy becomes overwhelmed by a melancholic longing for home. Winner of three awards at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival, his late masterpiece is a mystical and mysterious collision of East and West, shot with the tactile beauty that only Tarkovsky can provide.
In Andrei Tarkovsky's first film made outside of the USSR, a Russian intellectual conducting research in Italy becomes overwhelmed by a melancholic longing for home. Winner of three awards at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival, his late masterpiece is a mystical and mysterious collision of East and West, shot with the tactile beauty that only Tarkovsky can provide.
