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Andrei Rublev (film)

Andrei Rublev
Andrei Rublev Russian poster.jpg
Original theatrical release poster
Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky
Produced by Tamara Ogorodnikova
Written by
Starring
Music by Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov
Cinematography Vadim Yusov
Edited by
  • Tatyana Egorycheva
  • Lyudmila Feiginova
  • Olga Shevkunenko
Production
company
Distributed by Columbia Pictures (US)
Release date
  • December 1966 (1966-12)
  • May 1969 (1969-05) (Cannes)
Running time
  • Original release:
  • 205 minutes
  • 2016 re-release:
  • 183 minutes
Country Soviet Union
Language Russian
Budget 1.3 million rubles

Andrei Rublev (Russian: Андрей Рублёв, Andrey Rublyov), also known as The Passion According to Andrei (Russian: Страсти по Андрею), 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 great 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.


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