Movie
The Gift
2019 · 89 min
A quiet, tense documentary that immerses you in an artist's precarious exile and the weight of political pressure.
- Directed by
- Giuliano Fratini
- Genres
- Documentary
- Overview
- After the release of "Nostalgia", Andrei Tarkovsky runs out his Soviet authorities permission to work abroad: he has to go back home. But he understands from the messages of some friends and colleagues that his life in Russia would be even tougher than before. So he then decides to break with Soviet authorities and, a year before the Milan Conference of 1984 during which he will announce publicly his decision, he leaves his friends that are hosting him in Rome and takes refuge in a secret location.
- How it feels
- Tense, melancholic and earnest. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Freedom, isolation, art, politics
- Content
- Mild language. No violence, gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Giuliano Fratini
- Genres
- Documentary
