Filmek vonzásában: Andrey Rublev

Director: Andrej Tarkovszkij

Screenplay: Andrei Tarkovski
Music: Viacheslav Ovchinnikov

Cast: Anatoli Solonicin (Andrey Rublev), Ivan Lapikov (Kirill), Nikolai Grinko (Daniil), Nikolai Sergeiev (Feufan Grek)

With his second feature, a towering epic that took him years to complete, Andrei Tarkovsky waded deep into the past and emerged with a visionary masterwork. Threading together several self-contained episodes, the filmmaker traces the renowned icon painter Andrei Rublev through the harsh realities of fifteenth-century Russian life, vividly conjuring the dark and otherworldly atmosphere of the age: a primitive hot-air balloon takes to the sky, snow falls inside an unfinished church, naked pagans celebrate the midsummer solstice, a young man oversees the casting of a gigantic bell. Appearing here in Tarkovsky’s preferred 183-minute cut, as well as the version that was originally censored by Soviet authorities, Andrei Rublev is an arresting meditation on art, faith, and endurance, and a powerful reflection on expressive constraints in the director’s own time.

Awards: Cannes Film Festival - FIPRESCI Prize (1969)