Andrei Tarkovsky’s unforgettably haunting film, his first to be made outside Russia, explores the melancholy of the expatriate through the journey of Gorchakov, a Russian poet researching in Italy.

Arriving at a Tuscan village spa with Eugenia, his Italian interpreter, Gorchakov is visited by memories of Russia and of his wife and children, as he encounters the local mystic who sets him a challenging task.

Filled with a series of mysterious and extraordinary images, all of which coalesce into a miraculous whole in the film’s final shot, Nostalgia, is, as with so much of Tarkovsky's work, a film in which nature, the elements of fire and water, music, painting and poetry all play a major role.