{"product_id":"nostalghia-original-release-japanese-movie-poster-1983-b2-size-51-x-73cm-i177-copy","title":"“Nostalghia” (ノスタルジア), Original Japanese Re-Release Movie Poster 2003, Andrei Tarkovsky, B2 Size (c. 51.5 × 72.8 cm) S6","description":"\u003cp class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\"\u003eThis is an \u003cstrong\u003eoriginal Japanese B2 theatrical re-release poster produced for the 2003 revival of Andrei Tarkovsky’s\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNostalghia\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cstrong\u003eノスタルジア\u003c\/strong\u003e), his extraordinary 1983 meditation on exile, memory, faith and spiritual displacement.\u003cspan class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchor\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe film stars \u003cstrong\u003eOleg Yankovsky\u003c\/strong\u003e as Andrei Gorchakov, a Russian writer travelling through Italy while researching the life of an expatriate composer, together with \u003cstrong\u003eDomiziana Giordano\u003c\/strong\u003e as his interpreter Eugenia and \u003cstrong\u003eErland Josephson\u003c\/strong\u003e as Domenico, an isolated visionary convinced that humanity has lost its spiritual direction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 2003 campaign presented \u003cem\u003eNostalghia\u003c\/em\u003e to a new generation as one of the great achievements of late-20th-century art cinema. The poster’s own vertical Japanese copy captures that retrospective positioning:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e「タルコフスキーが21世紀に遺した至宝」\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“A treasure Tarkovsky left to the 21st century.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is an unusually restrained and elegant re-release design, allowing one of the film’s most extraordinary images to carry almost the entire composition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFilm background\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNostalghia\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e was Tarkovsky’s first feature made outside the Soviet Union and was filmed in Italy in collaboration with screenwriter \u003cstrong\u003eTonino Guerra\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIts protagonist, Andrei Gorchakov, has travelled from Moscow to Italy to investigate \u003cstrong\u003ePavel Sosnovsky\u003c\/strong\u003e, an 18th-century Russian composer who lived abroad before returning to his homeland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYet the research journey gradually becomes something far more internal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGorchakov experiences an increasingly profound estrangement from his surroundings and an overwhelming longing for Russia. His memories, dreams and physical environment begin to merge, while his encounter with the troubled Domenico leads him toward one of Tarkovsky’s most famous acts of faith and endurance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe film’s title describes something deeper than ordinary nostalgia. For Tarkovsky, it refers to a specifically painful form of \u003cstrong\u003espiritual homesickness—the inability to reconcile physical displacement with one’s memory of home\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe film received major recognition at the \u003cstrong\u003e1983 Cannes Film Festival\u003c\/strong\u003e, including the Grand Prix du cinéma de création, further establishing Tarkovsky as one of the defining filmmakers of world cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDesign\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poster is dominated by the film’s celebrated \u003cstrong\u003efinal image\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the foreground, Gorchakov sits beside a pool of water with a \u003cstrong\u003eGerman Shepherd lying quietly beside him\u003c\/strong\u003e. Behind them stands a modest Russian wooden house, apparently transplanted into the Italian landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSurrounding that intimate scene are the enormous ruined walls of the \u003cstrong\u003eAbbey of San Galgano\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe image is one of Tarkovsky’s most famous visual constructions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRussia and Italy—\u003cstrong\u003ememory and reality, homeland and exile—occupy the same impossible physical space\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Russian dacha does not simply appear as a flashback. It exists within the Italian ruin itself, as though Gorchakov’s interior world has finally overtaken geography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis single image therefore condenses virtually the entire film.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe composition is deliberately muted: \u003cstrong\u003edamp greens, grey-blue stone, brown earth and pale mist\u003c\/strong\u003e create an atmosphere of stillness and melancholy. Nothing is aggressively saturated, allowing the landscape to feel suspended somewhere between physical reality and recollection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe vertical Japanese campaign line appears discreetly against the dark trees at upper right, leaving Tarkovsky’s image almost entirely unobstructed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTypography\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross the lower edge of the photograph appears the international title:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNOSTALGHIA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eset in a refined white serif typeface.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDirectly beneath is the understated original credit block:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“un film di ANDREY TARKOVSKY”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003etogether with the principal production and cast credits.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe broad cream lower field gives the composition an almost gallery-like quality, separating the photographic image from the Japanese title device below.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt lower right, \u003cstrong\u003eノスタルジア\u003c\/strong\u003e appears on what looks like a \u003cstrong\u003etorn fragment of paper\u003c\/strong\u003e, its uneven scorched-looking edge introducing a fragile, handmade element into an otherwise highly controlled layout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe device can be read almost like a fragment of a letter, notebook page or surviving memory—particularly appropriate for a film concerned with distance, loss and remembrance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTarkovsky and the final image\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFew filmmakers used architecture and landscape as psychologically as \u003cstrong\u003eAndrei Tarkovsky\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout \u003cem\u003eNostalghia\u003c\/em\u003e, water, abandoned buildings, mist, ruined interiors and reflections are repeatedly used to dissolve the conventional boundary between physical place and internal memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe final image represented on this poster is perhaps the film’s ultimate expression of that approach.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ruined Gothic abbey surrounds the Russian house like an enormous shell, while the small human figure and dog remain almost motionless in the foreground.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTarkovsky then reveals that the apparently intimate landscape exists within something monumental and impossible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe effect is simultaneously comforting and devastating: \u003cstrong\u003ehome has returned, but only as an image contained within exile\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor collectors of Tarkovsky material, this makes the poster especially appealing because its design is built around one of the director’s most recognisable and thematically complete images rather than conventional portrait advertising.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe B2 format\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeasuring approximately \u003cstrong\u003e51.5 × 72.8 cm\u003c\/strong\u003e, the Japanese \u003cstrong\u003eB2\u003c\/strong\u003e was the standard theatrical poster format used by Japanese cinemas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe vertical proportions are particularly suited to this design. The abbey walls and misty landscape occupy the upper field, while the generous cream space beneath creates an elegant visual pause before the Japanese title.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe result feels closer to an exhibition poster than conventional commercial film advertising—an approach entirely appropriate to Tarkovsky’s cinema.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExcellent+ condition overall.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poster is exceptionally well preserved, with \u003cstrong\u003estrong photographic detail, clean typography and excellent tonal balance\u003c\/strong\u003e throughout the muted green, brown and grey palette.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe large cream lower section remains notably clean, while the delicate white \u003cstrong\u003eNOSTALGHIA\u003c\/strong\u003e lettering and small production credits remain crisp and clearly defined.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThere are \u003cstrong\u003eno prominent fold lines, pinholes or major display defects\u003c\/strong\u003e visible. 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