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Cinema Wednesdays - Special edition: The coronarétrospective du cinéma presents Tarkovski - Antoine Bernhard

A Russian poet, Gortchakov, is following in the footsteps of a fellow composer who spent time in Italy in the 18th century.^th century. With the help of a translator, Eugenia, he travels around the country, discovering the chapel where Piero della Francesca painted the Madonna of the Childbirth, as well as a village with an old hot-water pool dedicated to Saint Catherine. There, Gortchakov meets an enlightened man, Domenico, who seeks to save the world from the materialism in which it revels. Before setting himself on fire, he entrusts Gortchakov with one last task: to cross the drained pool with a candle in hand, without the flame going out...