Basic
Info
Title:
Andrei Rublev
Genre:
Biography, Drama, History
Country:
Soviet Union
Language:
Russian
Running
time: 183 minutes
Release
date: May 1969 (Cannes)
Staff
Director:
Andrei Tarkovsky
Producer:
Tamara Ogorodnikova
Screenplay:
Andrei Konchalovsky, Andrei Tarkovsky
Music:
Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov
Cinematography:
Vadim Yusov
Editor:
Tatyana Egorycheva, Lyudmila Feiginova, Olga Shevkunenko
Cast
Anatoly Solonitsyn as Andrei Rublev
Nikolai Grinko as Daniil Chorny
Nikolai Sergeyev as Theophanes the
Greek
Nikolai Burlyayev as Boriska
Ivan Lapikov as Kirill
Summary
“Andrei Rublev” is a 1969 former
Soviet biographical historical drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and co-written
with Andrei Konchalovsky. The film was remade and re-edited from the 1966 film,
“The Passion According to Andrei” by Tarkovsky which was censored during the
former Soviet Union's Brezhnev regime.
The film is set against the background
of 15th-century Russia and based loosely on the life of the Russian icon
painter Andrei Rublev at the time, but attempts to depict a realistic portrait
of medieval Russia. Tarkovsky tried to make a film that shows the artist as a
world historic figure and Christianity as an axiom of Russian historical
identity during the turbulent period of Russian history, which ultimately led
to the birth of the Tsardom of Russia.
The themes of the film include artistic
freedom, religion, political ambiguity, autodidacticism, and the creation of
art under a repressive regime. For this reason, the film was not released in
the Soviet Union for years after the film was completed.
Then another version
of the film, which was screened at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival, won the
FIPRESCI prize. In 1971, a censored version of the film was released in the Soviet
Union. When it was released in the United States through Columbia Pictures in
1973, the film was further cut for commercial reasons. As a result, the film
has several versions.
Although the film had difficulties due to censorship for
years after the film was released, it has been soon recognized by many film
critics and directors as a highly original and accomplished work. After being
restored to its original version, the film has been regarded as one of the
greatest films of all time, and ranked highly in both critics' and directors'
polls.
Movie
Review
“The Pieta of Filmmaking”
“The Greatest Movie Ever
Made”
“A true masterpiece!”
“Tarkvosky's ingenious”
“The most profoundly
affecting film of my life”
Interesting
stories about the film
1. The film was selected in the
"Religion" category of its list of 45 "Great films"
selected by the Vatican.
2. The film was ranked number 40
non-English-speaking film in the 2018 critics' poll conducted by the BBC.
3. The film was included in the
"1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven
Schneider.
4. Tarkovsky and his
co-screenwriter Andrei Konchalovsky worked for more than two years on the
scripts for the film while studying medieval writings, chronicles and books on
medieval history and art.
5. The film was ranked No. 87 in
the “Essential 100” list of films released by the 2010 Toronto International
Film Festival.
6. The film was ranked #1 in the 25
best arthouse films of all time by the “Guardian.”
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