Fear, Sacrifice and Rescue
by Zhao Lihong
About This Novel
Pavel Sosnovsky committed suicide after returning to Russia, but Tarkovsky stayed in a foreign country forever. Gorchakov's sudden death in "Nostalgia" is like a prophecy. Tarkovsky once said naively: As long as I finish filming for three years, I will return to Moscow. He was buried in a foreign country at the age of only 55 before he had time to film "Hamlet", "The Temptation of Saint Anthony", or "The Tales of Hoffmann" or "Leo Tolstoy's Escape" that he loved so much. Initially, he was buried in the Russian Emigrants Cemetery in Saint-Genivoye de Boua, a small town fifty kilometers away from Paris. There was a small metal plate above a tombstone with someone else's name, and small Latin letters read: "Andrei Tarkovsky, 1932-1987." There is no description of his life and no inscription. Tombstone number: 7583.
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