Andrei Tarkovsky's brooding late masterpiece and a darkly poetic vision of exile was the first of his features to be made outside of Russia, the home to which he would never return. This love and melancholy is embodied in the film by Andrei (Oleg Yankovsky, The Mirror), a Russian intellectual doing research in Italy. Written with frequent Michelangelo Antonioni collaborator Tonino Guerra (L'Avventura), Nostalghia is a mystical and mysterious collision of East and West, shot with the tactile beauty that only Tarkovsky can provide.