DVD. Run time: 130 mins. Languages: Italian Russian. Nostalghia is Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky s enigmatic work about a writer (Oleg Yankovsky) who trapped by his fame and an unhappy marriage seeks out his cultural past in Italy. Here he meets Erland Josephson a local pariah who declares that the world is coming to an end. The writer finds this prophecy curiously more alluring than the possibility of a dead-end future. Nostalghia won the Grand Prix de Creation and the International Critics Prize at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. Hal Erickson Rovi