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The first film made outside his native Russia by director Andrei Tarkovsky is a hauntingly beautiful portrait of a Russian poet and musicologist who travels to a spa village in Italy's Tuscany region on a research project. Even as he longs to return to his homeland and his family, the poet is drawn to his lovely interpreter and fascinated with a local professor-turned-mystic. Oleg Yankovskiy, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano star. 125 min LANGUAGE In Italian with English subtitles.
