The film features music by Ludwig van Beethoven and Giuseppe Verdi ( Requiem ) , as well as Russian folk songs . Beethoven 's Ninth Symphony is featured both during Andrei 's visit at Domenico 's home , and during his demonstration in Rome . Vincent Canby of '' The New York Times '' said that Tarkovsky " may well be a film poet but he 's a film poet with a tiny vocabulary . ... Nothing happens . " Dave Kehr was mildly positive , considering it to be " packed with imagery that seems at once hopelessly obscure and crushingly obvious " while also arguing that the work " does succeed in inducing some kind of trance . " The film won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury , the prize for best director and the FIPRESCI Prize at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival . Tarkovsky also shared a special prize called '' Grand Prix du cinéma de creation '' with Robert Bresson . Soviet authorities prevented the film from winning the Palme d'Or , a fact that hardened Tarkovsky 's resolve to never work in the Soviet Union again
1983 Cannes Film Festival
1983 Cannes Film Festival
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