SYNOPSIS: Immediately suppressed by the Soviets in 1966, Andrei Tarkovsky’s epic masterpiece is a sweeping medieval tale of Russia’s greatest icon painter. Too experimental, too frightening, too violent, and too politically complicated to be released officially, Andrei Rublev has existed only in shortened, censored versions until the Criterion Collection created this complete 205-minute director’s cut special edition.
| Andrei Rublev | Anatoly Solonitsyn |
| Kirill | Ivan Lapikov |
| Danil Chorny | Nikolai Grinko |
| Theophanes the Greek | Nikolai Sergeyev |
| Durochka | Irma Raush |
| Director | Andrei Tarkovsky |
| Screenplay | Andrei Tarkovsky and Andrei Konchalovsky |
| Producer | Tamara Ogorodnikova |
| Cinematography | Vadim Yusov |
| Music | Viacheslav Ovchinnikov |
| Editing | Ludmila Feignova |
By January 11, 1999
When Andrei Tarkovsky’s dark, startling Andrei Rublev first materialized on the international scene in the late 1960s, it was an apparent anomaly—a pre-Soviet theater of cruelty charged with resurgent Slavic Read more »
November 17, 2008
Marking the publication of two new books on the visionary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky, J. Hoberman writes movingly on the artist for Bookforum, beginning with some thoughts on his 1966 epic: “The Read more »
