Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Language
- Russian
- Country
- Italy, Russia
Why tonight?
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
- In Russian — subtitles on.
The story
Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov journeys through Italy with his interpreter Eugenia to research the life of an 18th-century Russian composer who once lived abroad. Isolated and consumed by an unrelenting longing for his homeland, Andrei becomes drawn to Domenico, a radical mystic obsessed with spiritual redemption. Through austere imagery and extended temporal rhythms, Tarkovsky examines exile, memory, and the profound melancholy of being unable to belong fully to either place or language.
- dreams
- italy
- crisis
- memory
- madness
- immolation
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Oleg Yankovskiy
Andrei Gorchakov
Erland Josephson
Domenico
Domiziana Giordano
Eugenia
Patrizia Terreno
Andrei's Wife
- Laura De Marchi — Chambermaid
- Delia Boccardo — Domenico's Wife
- Milena Vukotić — Civil Servant
- Raffaele Di Mario
- Rate Furlan
- Livio Galassi
- Elena Magoia
- Piero Vida
- Directed
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Written
- Andrei Tarkovsky, Tonino Guerra
Production
- Rating
- 7.8 / 10 · 613 ratings
- Studio
- Sovinfilm, Opera Film Produzione, RAI
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
