Andrei Rublev (1969) - The Criterion Collection

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.

Cast

Andrei Rublev	Anatoli Solonitsyn
Kirill	Ivan Lapikov
Danil Chorny	Nikolai Grinko
Theophanes the Greek	Nikolai Sergeyev
Durochka	Irma Raush

Credits

Director	Andrei Tarkovsky
Screenplay	Andrei Tarkovsky and Andrei Konchalovsky
Producer	Tamara Ogorodnikova
Cinematography	Vadim Yusov
Music	Viacheslav Ovchinnikov
Editing	Ludmila Feignova

Disc Features

The definitive 205-minute director’s cut
Exclusive widescreen digital transfer
New English subtitles translating 40% more dialogue
Screen-specific audio essay by Harvard film professor Vlada Petric
Rare film interviews with Andrei Tarkovsky, with an essay on the filmmaker’s work by Professor Petric
A timeline featuring key events in Russian history, plus the lives and works of Andrei Rublev and Andrei Tarkovsky
Optimal image quality: RSDL dual-layer edition

From the Current

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Nov 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 inventor and master...

Andrei Rublev

by J. Hoberman Jan 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 mysticism. Today, Tarkovsky’s second feature seems to prophesy the impending...