At a spa in the Tuscan Hills, a Russian poet and musicologist, researching the life of an 18th century composer, meets a mysterious man who is convinced that the end of the world is nigh. The Russian, Andrei Gorchakov (Oleg Yankovsky), is asked to cross an ancient sulphur pool carrying a lighted candle as an act of faith. Tarkovsky's first film outside the USSR is full of personal and Christian symbols and works as a study of such themes as memory, melancholia and disenchantment with the material world.

Drama
Andrei Tarkovsky
Oleg Yankovskiy
Erland Josephson
Domiziana Giordano
Patrizia Terreno
Laura De Marchi
Delia Boccardo
Milena Vukotic
Raffaele Di Mario
Rate Furlan
Livio Galassi
Rai 2
Grange Communications Inc.
Kino Lorber
UHD