There is a famous scene in Nostalghia, for example, in which the protagonist, Andrei Gorchakov (Oleg Jankovsky), a Russian poet doing research in Italy, walks from one end of a dry swimming pool to the other carrying a lit candle.
I removed the unnecessary spoiling detail of the candle scene. I’ve seen it over a dozen times, and Nostalghia‘s late, nine-minute shot of a homesick Russian poet carrying a candle across a pool in an Italian spa in tribute to his mad, suicided friend, still devastates. The single shot of several minutes is focused entirely on whether the flame will go out, or if Gorchakov will stumble. With Oleg Yankovskiy, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano, Patrizia Terreno. A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy to research the life of an 18th-century composer.
The Levitation scene in Tarkovsky’s sci-fi art film “Solaris” sets a perfect example of the late Russian director’s talent to combine different art forms – music, painting, sculpture, and choreographies – and integrate them to cinema. Der russische Schriftsteller Andrei Gorchakov reist nach Italien, um das Leben des russischen Komponisten Maxim Berezovsky aus dem 18.
The scene where Andrei carries the lit candle from one side of the pool to the next has to be one of the most tense and drawn out moments in the history of cinema, and the first time I saw the film, I could hardly draw a breath until Andrei was successful, ironically coinciding with … What is the point of ruining the film?
Indeed, Andrei's indefinite journey, the church supplicants, and Domenico's final incomprehensible act, manifest this innate longing. "alyosha" 05:42, 18 December 2005 (UTC) SPOILER WARNING IS NEEDED!
Jahrhundert zu erforschen, der in Italien lebte. I always read the scene in Tarkovsky’s penultimate film as the poet’s final ritual, a symbolic act carrying its own final, life-or-death meaning.
I feel it's unfortunate to reveal the ending, but I don't feel bold enough nor have the time to rewrite the article from scratch. The Carrying of the Candle (Nostalghia, 1983) … [SPOILERS] Question Regarding "Nostalghia" (AKA the candle thing) OK, so I'm sure I'm not the first person to realize that the bright circle at the end of the excerpt of "Nostalghia" you watch in the video room (the video with the candle if you don't know what it's called) appears to be a part of a puzzle. Highly cerebral, beautifully realized, and symbolically obscure, "Nostalghia" is a cinematic abstract of spiritual hunger. 86.179.65.216 18:54, 27 October 2010 (UTC) Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky.
In fremder Umgebung, sprachlich, kulturell und seelisch isoliert, verfällt Andrei in eine schwere Nostalgie.