Andrei Tarkovsky NOSTALGHIA (1983), 125 Min
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October 17, 2017 (XXXV:8) Andrei Tarkovsky NOSTALGHIA (1983), 125 min. (The online version of this handout has color images.) Cannes Film Festival 1983 Won Best Director, Andrei Tarkovsky tied with Robert Bresson for L’Argent (1983). Won FIPRESCI Prize, Andrei Tarkovsky Won Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, Andrei Tarkovsky Nominated Palme d'Or, Andrei Tarkovsky DIRECTED BY Andrei Tarkovsky WRITTEN BY Andrei Tarkovsky & Tonino Guerra PRODUCED BY Manolo Bolognini, Renzo Rossellini, Daniel Toscan du Plantier (uncredited) CINEMATOGRAPHY Giuseppe Lanci FILM EDITING Erminia Marani, Amedeo Salfa CAST Oleg Yankovskiy…Andrei Gorchakov (as Oleg Jankovsky) Erland Josephson…Domenico Domiziana Giordano…Eugenia completely reshot on a dramatically reduced budget after an Patrizia Terreno…Andrei's Wife accident in the laboratory destroyed the first version, and after Laura De Marchi…Chambermaid Nostalghia (1983), Tarkovsky defected to the West. His last film, Delia Boccardo…Domenico's Wife Offret (1986) was shot in Sweden with many of Ingmar Milena Vukotic…Civil Servant Bergman's regular collaborators, and won almost an unprecedented four prizes at the Cannes Film Festival. He died ANDREI TARKOVSKY (b. April 4, 1932, Zavrazhe, Ivono, of cancer at the end of the year. Russia—d. December 28, 1986, Paris) my be the most famous Soviet filmmaker since Sergei M. Eisenstein. Tarkovsky, the son TONINO GUERRA (b. March 16, 1920 in Santarcangelo di of noted poet Arseniy Tarkovsky. studied music and Arabic in Romagna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy—d. March 21, 2012, age 92, in Moscow before enrolling in the Soviet film school VGIK. He Santarcangelo di Romagna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy) is the son of shot to international attention with his first feature, Ivanovo a fisherman/fishmonger father and an illiterate mother whom he detstvo (1962), which won the top prize at the Venice Film later taught to read and write. Guerra began to orally compose Festival. This resulted in high expectations for his second feature dialect poems while imprisoned in a German concentration camp Andrei Rublyov (1969), which was banned by the Soviet during World War II, and he published his first collection, I authorities until 1971. It was shown at the 1969 Cannes Film Scarabocc (Scribblings), in 1946. His longtime collaboration Festival at 4 o’clock in the morning on the last day, in order to with famed Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni began with prevent it winning a prize—but it won one nonetheless, and was L'Avventura, the breakthrough 1960 film that brought eventually distributed abroad partly to enable the authorities to international renown to the director, who co-wrote the script with save face. Solyaris (1972), had an easier ride, being acclaimed by Guerra and Elio Bartolini. In the preface to his published many in the West as the Soviet answer to Kubrick’s 2001 screenplays, Antonioni said that he and Guerra “have long and (though Tarkovsky himself was never too fond of it). The violent arguments ... and that makes him all the more helpful.” director ran into official trouble again with Zerkalo (1975), a Guerra, who worked with American, Greek and Russian dense, personal web of autobiographical memories with a directors, said in a 1993 NPR interview that each filmmaker had radically innovative plot structure. Stalker (1979) had to be made him aware of different aspects of himself. “Fellini is Tarkhovsky—NOSTALGHIA—2 always immersed in his childhood, in his background, in his son and his grandson, and have him see my son,” De Niro told memories,” he said. “Coming from Rimini, which is near my reporters at the time. “It was a good reunion.” During this time, own hometown, he obliged me to look here locally, to look into Yankovsky was being highly praised for his dignified and my own memory, my own childhood.” On tonight’s director, the spiritual performance of the Metropolitan Philip, the only writer said: “His preoccupation with his spirituality raised all my adversary of Ivan the Terrible, in the film Tsar (2009), directed own spiritual doubts.” He shared three Academy Award by Pavel Lungin, showing at the Cannes Film Festival. It was nominations for writing for director Mario Monicelli’s Casanova Yankovsky’s last role before dying of cancer at 65. 70 (1966), Antonioni’s Blow-Up (1967) and Fellini’s Amarcord (1976). “I think he's one of the greatest writers of our time whose ERLAND JOSEPHSON (b. June 15, 1923 in Stockholm, medium happens to be the screenplay,” said Howard A. Rodman, Stockholms län, Sweden—d.February 25, 2012, age 88, in vice president of the Writers Guild of America, West and a Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sweden) is the only actor to appear professor at the School of Cinematic Arts at USC. In 2011, the in Ingmar Bergman movies in every decade from the 1940s frequently honored Guerra received the Writers Guild of through to the new millennium. Josephson appeared in 14 America, West's Jean Renoir Award for Screenwriting Bergman films: It Rains on Our Love (1946), To Joy (1950), The Achievement. At the time of his death, he’d written for over 111 Magician (1958), Brink of Life (1958), Hour of the Wolf (1968), films. The Passion of Anna (1969), Cries & Whispers (1972), Scenes from a Marriage (1973), The Magic Flute (1975), Face to Face GIUSEPPE LANCI (b. May 1, 1942 in Rome, Lazio, Italy) (1976), Autumn Sonata (1978), Fanny and Alexander (1982), began acting as director of photography in 1977, after an After the Rehearsal (1984), In the Presence of a Clown (1997), internship as assistant operator and car operator in Bertolucci's and Saraband (2003).In addition to acting in Bergman's films, Strategy of Spider (1970). In addition to Tarkovsky, Lanci has Josephson also co-wrote Bergman’s All These Women (1964), worked with Roberto Benigni, Daniele Luchetti, Liliana Cavani, one of Bergman's rare comedies and his first film shot in color. Pasquale Pozzessere. Speaking to an Italian reporter about his Apart from Bergman, Josephson’s most fruitful collaboration working relationship with Tarkovsky, Lanci relayed, “Andrei was with Tarkovsky starring in his last two films, Nostalghia told me that cinema used time as a narrative element, while (1983) and The Sacrifice (1986). He also wrote several plays, photography is usually constant throughout the sequence of a novels and memoirs and directed the film Marmalade Revolution sequence. Dynamic photography takes time to give a different (1980). As a fellow writer and director, and a lifelong friend, he consistency to the film. An example is in nature with weather often spoke perceptively about Bergman’s work. “A man conditions: if on a cloudy day at a certain time the sun goes out obsessed with failure has succeeded better than others in the light conditions change, or in an interior if someone enters a portraying it,” Mr. Josephson once wrote. “This could be referred dark room and lights up the light there is a change of conditions to as the Bergman vaccination method.” The actor was offered of lighting. All this however is always linked to precise actions. Richard Dreyfuss’s role in Jaws 2 (1978). But turned it down Nostalghia has expanded this discourse, and variations of with the words: “I rather have intellectual battles with Liv ‘natural’ light have been added to variations that no longer Ullmann [Bergman’s actress/muse], than fighting with some correspond to any logic but to emotional motives.” shark.” OLEG YANKOVSKIY (b. February 23, 1944 in Dzhezkazgan, DOMIZIANA GIORDANO (b. September 4, 1959 in Rome, Karaganda Oblast, Kazakh SSR, USSR [now Jezkazgan, Lazio, Italy) is known for her roles in Interview with the Kazakhstan]—d. May 20, 2009, age 65, in Moscow, Russia) was Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994), Nostalghia (1983) and born to an aristocratic family exiled to Kazakhstan under Josef Jean-Luc Godard’s Nouvelle Vague (1990). She is famous for Stalin in the 1930s. Those in the West who knew Yankovsky her long, flowing locks which were rumored to be the reason the only from a handful of films, principally two of Andrei actress was hand-picked by Neil Jordan for the role of Madeline Tarkovsky’s most haunting and poetic works, The Mirror (1975) in Interview with the Vampire. (Plus the director cited tonight’s and Nostalghia (1983), could have little idea how much he was film as inspiration.) Giordano is also a published poet and revered in his own country, in both Soviet and post-Soviet times, photographer. equally on stage and in films. According to the Guardian¸ the actor was masterful at “humanizing political figures, by PATRIZIA TERRENO (b. date and place unknown) has acted expressing certain deep emotions, lifting his portrayals of in only seven projects: Corsa in discesa (1989), Nostalgia Communist Party leaders in The Bonus (1974), and in Wrong (1983), Adua (1981, TV Mini-Series), Bel Ami (1979, TV Mini- Connection (1977) above the popular film stereotypes.” He is Series), Il prato (1979) and The Green Tree (1966 perhaps most famous in Russia for the title role in The Very Same Munchhausen, the 1979 television movie of the tales of an 18th ANDREI TARKOVSKY, from World Film Directors, V. II. century aristocrat who travels to the moon and dances with Ed. John Wakeman. The H.W. Wilson Co., Inc NY, 1988 Venus. An English-language film of the stories was made in 1988 starring Uma Thurman and Sting. Among the few films he Russian director, born in Laovrazhe, Ivanova district, Soviet made abroad was Sally Potter’s The Man Who Cried (2000), in Union. He is the son of the distinguished poet Arseniy Tarkovsky which he played Christina Ricci’s Jewish father, who emigrates and the former Maria Ivanova Vishnyakova. Tarkovsky studied to the US from Russia.