Andrei Rublev
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 Read more »
- Soviet Union
- 1969
- 185 minutes
- Black and White
- 2.35:1
- Russian
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 & CreditsOpen
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
