Slow narration in Voyage in Time by Andrei Tarkovsky and Tonino Guerra (1983).

This article analyzes the documentary *Voyage in Time* (1983), created by filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky and screenwriter Tonino Guerra, within the framework of slow cinema and its spiritual challenges in the modern era. It examines how the film’s narrative is deliberately slowed through long takes, pauses, dual narrative lines (external journey and internal reflection), and the use of non-diegetic liturgical chant—specifically Dmitry Bortniansky’s Russian Orthodox composition "Da ispravitsja molitva moja"—which frames the film with a circular, contemplative structure. The interplay between Guerra’s poem "I Don’t Know What Home Is ..." and Bortniansky’s chant symbolizes a dialogue between Italian and Russian cultural traditions and transforms the travelogue into a poetic meditation on memory, home, and transcendence. Ultimately, the documentary transcends its plot of location scouting to become a slow, spiritual journey where everyday experience attains artistic and eternal significance.