Andrei Roublev (film)

Andrei Rublev
Original theatrical release poster
Directed by	Andrei Tarkovsky
Produced by	Tamara Ogorodnikova
Written by	Andrei Konchalovsky Andrei Tarkovsky
Starring	Anatoly Solonitsyn Ivan Lapikov Nikolai Grinko Nikolai Sergeyev Nikolai Burlyayev Irma Raush
Music by	Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov
Cinematography	Vadim Yusov
Edited by	Tatyana Egorycheva Lyudmila Feiginova Olga Shevkunenko
Production company	Mosfilm
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures (US)
Release date	December 1966 (1966-12) May 1969 (1969-05) (Cannes)
Running time	Tarkovsky first cut: 205 minutes Tarkovsky final cut: 183 minutes
Country	Soviet Union
Language	Russian
Budget	1.3 million rubles

Andrei Rublev (Russian: Андрей Рублёв) is a 1966 Soviet biographical historical drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and co-written with Andrei Konchalovsky. The film is loosely based on the life of Andrei Rublev, the 15th-century Russian icon painter. The film features Anatoly Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Sergeyev, Nikolai Burlyayev and Tarkovsky's wife Irma Raush. Savva Yamshchikov, a famous Russian restorer and art historian, was a scientific consultant of the film.

Andrei Rublev is set against the background of 15th-century Russia. Although the film is only loosely based on the life of Andrei Rublev, it seeks to depict a realistic portrait of medieval Russia. Tarkovsky sought to create a film that shows the artist as "a world-historic figure" and "Christianity as an axiom of Russia’s historical identity" during a turbulent period of Russian history that ultimately resulted in the Tsardom of Russia. The film's themes include artistic freedom, religion, political ambiguity, autodidacticism, and the making of art under a repressive regime. Because of this, it was not released domestically in the officially atheist and authoritarian Soviet Union for years after it was completed, except for a single 1966 screening in Moscow. A version of the film was shown at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the FIPRESCI prize. In 1971, a censored version of the film was released in the Soviet Union. The film was further cut for commercial reasons upon its U.S. release through Columbia Pictures in 1973. As a result, several versions of the film exist.