ANDREI RUBLEV [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1966
• Genre: Drama, War
• Plot: Tracing the life of a renowned icon painter, the second feature by Andrei Tarkovsky vividly conjures the murky world of medieval Russia. This dreamlike and remarkably tactile film follows Andrei Rublev as he passes through a series of poetically linked scenes—snow falls inside an unfinished church, naked pagans stream through a thicket during a torchlit ritual, a boy oversees the clearing away of muddy earth for the forging of a gigantic bell—gradually emerging as a man struggling mightily to preserve his creative and religious integrity. Appearing here in the director’s preferred 183-minute cut as well as the version that was originally suppressed by Soviet authorities, the masterwork ANDREI RUBLEV is one of Tarkovsky’s most revered films, an arresting meditation on art, faith, and endurance.
• Cast: Anatoli Solonitsyn, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko, Nikolai Sergeyev, Irma Raush, Nikolay Burlyaev, Yuriy Nazarov, Yuri Nikulin, Rolan Bykov, Nikolai Grabbe, Mikhail Kononov, Stepan Krylov, Irina Miroshnichenko, Bolot Bejshenaliyev, Andrei Tarkovsky, Andrei Konchalovsky, Tamara Ogorodnikova, Vadim Yusov, Tatyana Egorycheva, Lyudmila Feyginova, Olga Shevkunenko, Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov
• Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
• Runtime: 3:03
• Company: Mosfilm Studios, Janus Films, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie