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Sanja Nešić
Nostalgija za svetlošću Andreja Tarkovskog
Tuseday, February 26th, 2008
ANDREI
TARKOVSKY'S
NOSTALGHIA
FOR THE
LIGHT
"Here we are at the threshold.
This is the most important moment of your lives.
You have to know that here
your most cherished wish will come true.
The most sincere one.
The one reached through suffering."
(from STALKER)
In the entire history of cinema there has never been a director, who has made such a dramatic
stand for the human spirit as did Andrei Tarkovsky. Today, when cinema seems to have drowned in
a sea of glamorized triviality, when human relationships on screen have been reduced to sexual
intrigue or sloppy sentimentality, and baseness rules the day - this man appears as a lone warrior
standing in the midst of this cinematic catastrophe, holding up the banner for human spirituality.
What puts this director in a class all his own and catapults his films onto a height inaccessible to
other filmmakers? It is, first and foremost, his uncompromising stance that man is a SPIRITUAL
being. This may appear to be self-evident to some, and yet it is just on this very point that 99% of
cinema fails. Man's spirituality is quickly and conveniently pushed aside in favor of other more
"exciting" topics: man's sexuality, man's psychology, sociology and so on. In today's cinema, if
spirituality is dealt with at all, it is never treated as the foundation of our existence, but is there as
an appendage, something the characters concern themselves with in their spare time. In other
words, while in other films spirituality may be PART of the plot, in Tarkovsky's films it IS the plot; it
permeates the very fabric of his films. It can be said that his films vibrate with his own spirituality.
As he himself states, in all of his films the main characters undergo a SPIRITUAL crisis.
This is particularly evident in his film Stalker, where ALL of the characters are involved in an