Nostalghia

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Movie
German title Nostalghia
Original title Ностальгия ( Nostalgija )
Country of production Soviet Union , Italy
original language Russian , Italian
Publishing year 1983
length 121 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Andrei Tarkovsky
script Andrei Tarkowski,
Tonino Guerra
production Renzo Rossellini ,
Manolo Bolognini
music various
camera Giuseppe Lanci
cut Erminia Marani ,
Amedeo Salfa
occupation

Nostalghia ( Russian original title: Ностальгия , pronunciation "Nostalgia") is a Soviet - Italian film from 1983 directed by Andrei Tarkowski , with Oleg Jankowski , Domiziana Giordano and Erland Josephson in the leading roles. It is the first film Andrei Tarkovsky made outside of the Soviet Union.

The feeling of homesickness plays a central role in the plot of the film, to which the title also refers. (The Russian word Ностальгия and also the Italian nostalgia refer to the desire for a place, i.e. homesickness , or a person, not, as in German, for a bygone era.) Nostalghia is Tarkovsky's only late work that only became German after almost 30 years was dubbed and dubbed. The German version is included on a DVD released on April 30, 2010, along with the Italian version.

action

The Russian writer Andrei Gorchakov travels to Italy to write a biography about Pawel Sosnowski, a Russian composer of the 18th century who lived in Italy and was successful there, but who longed to return to the bondage of Russia, fell in love there and fell in love finally took his own life. Together with the interpreter Eugenia, Andrei traveled to various places where his compatriot stayed, including the Cappella di Santa Maria di Momentana in Monterchi with the portrait of the Madonna del Parto by Piero della Francesca . Later they stay in Bagno Vignoni , an old seaside resort in Tuscany . The discrepancy between the cherished ideal and the reality of Italy, combined with the overwhelming memory of the Russian homeland, aggravate the brooding, melancholy Andrei; he looks desperate. In his grief he also rejects Eugenia's love, but finds a soul mate in the eccentric Domenico, an old, lonely mathematician whom he meets at the thermal baths. Domenico is considered “crazy” by the residents and bathers because he locked himself and his family in his house for seven years in anticipation of the end of the world. In the film, the final evacuation of the house by the police is told in short, nightmarish flashbacks .

Andrei visits Domenico, who lives in the ruins of an old building with his German shepherd. He talks about his “secret plans”: It depends on “doing something important”, “having big ideas” and “saving the whole world”, which is “very easy”. Andrei should simply cross the thermal baths of Bagno Vignoni in his place with a burning candle , which is consecrated to Saint Catherine of Siena , because he himself, as a "madman", is prevented from doing so by the other residents of the village. When Eugenia realizes that her love for Andrei is met with rejection, there is a heated argument between the two in the hotel; she declares her job as an interpreter ended and travels back to Rome. Andrei, who is left behind and is homesick for Russia, gets drunk; you can see him wading through knee-deep water surrounded by dilapidated walls and declaiming poems by Arseni Tarkowski (Andrei Tarkowski's father). In a dream scene, he identifies with Domenico.

Back in Rome, shortly before his planned return flight home, Andrei receives a call from Eugenia, who says that Domenico is also in Rome and wants to know whether Andrei has fulfilled his wish. Andrei then drives back to Bagno Vignoni. Standing on the equestrian statue of Mark Aurel on the Capitol Hill, Domenico gives a speech about the wrong path of modern civilization. Finally he pours gasoline over himself and burns himself. Meanwhile Andrei tries to carry out Domenico's order. The candle goes out twice when trying to carry it through the basin of the thermal bath, from which the water has been drained in the meantime. The third time, Andrei manages, with the last of his strength, to bring the burning candle to a protruding wall opposite. He collapses dead, but this can only be seen indirectly.

In the final picture you can see Andrei with Domenico's sheepdog sitting at a small pond in front of a wooden house in an apparently Russian landscape. In a minute-long take, the camera slowly goes into the super long shot , whereby it becomes visible that the entire scene is inside a huge, open-top Italian church ruin (the Abbazia San Galgano ). It starts to snow.

Locations

Most of the filming locations are in Tuscany and Lazio . The most important are:

reception

“When the film came to the cinemas in 1984, the West German film critics showed a remarkable determination to be unconditionally admired. It encompassed the entire political spectrum from the conservative to the progressive positions; Bourgeois and alternative papers spoke with one accord - also terminologically in unison - with an enthusiastic tongue. "

- Klaus Kreimeier

Awards

On the film festival of Cannes 1983 was Nostalghia with the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury and FIPRESCI awarded prize.

music

The film contains music by Claude Debussy , Richard Wagner , Ludwig van Beethoven , Giuseppe Verdi and Modest Mussorgsky, as well as Russian folk songs.

literature

  • Karsten Witte : The man in the coat. "Nostalghia" by Andrej Tarkowskij . In: In the cinema. Texts from seeing & hearing (=  Fischer Cinema ). No. 4454 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1985, ISBN 3-596-24454-4 , pp. 215-217 (first print in Der Spiegel , No. 4/1984 of January 23, 1984, p. 162 f).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In: Wolfgang Jacobsen (Ed.): Andrej Tarkowskij . Film series; 39. Munich, Vienna 1987, ISBN 3-446-15016-1 ( online ).
  2. ^ Festival de Cannes: Nostalghia . In: festival-cannes.com . Retrieved June 16, 2009.