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Andrei Rublev

Original title: Andrey Rublyov
  • 19661966
  • RR
  • 3h 25m
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Andrei Rublev (1966)
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The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.
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    • Andrei Tarkovsky
    • Andrey Konchalovskiy
    • Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Stars
    • Anatoliy Solonitsyn
    • Ivan Lapikov
    • Nikolay Grinko
    • Andrei Tarkovsky
    • Andrey Konchalovskiy
    • Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Stars
    • Anatoliy Solonitsyn
    • Ivan Lapikov
    • Nikolay Grinko
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    • 193User reviews
    • 121Critic reviews
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    Ivan Lapikov in Andrei Rublev (1966)
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    Anatoliy Solonitsyn
    Anatoliy Solonitsyn
    • Andrey Rublev
    Ivan Lapikov
    Ivan Lapikov
    • Kirill
    Nikolay Grinko
    Nikolay Grinko
    • Daniil Chyornyy
    Nikolay Sergeev
    Nikolay Sergeev
    • Feofan Grek
    Irina Tarkovskaya
    Irina Tarkovskaya
    • Durochka
    • (as Irma Raush)
    Nikolay Burlyaev
    Nikolay Burlyaev
    • Boriska
    Yuriy Nazarov
    Yuriy Nazarov
    • Velikiy knyaz, Malyy knyaz
    Yuriy Nikulin
    Yuriy Nikulin
    • Patrikey, monakh
    • (as Yu. Nikulin)
    Rolan Bykov
    Rolan Bykov
    • Skomorokh
    • (as R. Bykov)
    Nikolay Grabbe
    Nikolay Grabbe
    • Stepan, sotnik Velikogo knyazya
    • (as N. Grabbe)
    Mikhail Kononov
    Mikhail Kononov
    • Foma, monakh
    • (as M. Kononov)
    Stepan Krylov
    Stepan Krylov
    • Starshiy liteyshchik
    • (as S. Krylov)
    Bolot Beyshenaliev
    Bolot Beyshenaliev
    • Tatarskiy khan
    • (as B. Beyshenaliev)
    B. Matysik
    • Pyotr
    Anatoliy Obukhov
    Anatoliy Obukhov
    • Aleksey, monakh
    • (as A. Obukhov)
    Vladimir Titov
    • Sergey
    • (as Volodya Titov)
    Nikolay Glazkov
    • Efim
    • (as N. Glazkov)
    K. Aleksandrov
      • Andrei Tarkovsky
      • Andrey Konchalovskiy
      • Andrei Tarkovsky
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    • Trivia
      For the scene where the cow is on fire, it was covered in an asbestos coat that protected it from actually being burned. But for the scene where the horse falls down the stairs, it was shot in the neck by director Andrei Tarkovsky. The crew acquired the horse from a slaughterhouse where it was going to be shot the next day.
    • Goofs
      In the final scene, set in 1424, Rublev vows to paint an icon of the Trinity. This icon was executed in 1410, 14 years earlier.
    • Quotes

      Andrei Rublyov: You just spoke of Jesus. Perhaps he was born and crucified to reconcile God and man. Jesus came from God, so he is all-powerful. And if He died on the cross it was predetermined and His crucifixion and death were God's will. That would have aroused hatred not in those that crucified him but in those that loved him if they had been near him at that moment, because they loved him as a man only. But if He, of His own will, left them, He displayed injustice, or even cruelty. Maybe those who crucified him loved him because they helped in this divine plan.

    • Alternate versions
      When released in the UK, the sight of a horse falling off a staircase was cut from this title.
    • Connections
      Edited into Ombres vives ...une autre histoire du cinema... (2013)

    User reviews193

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    10/10
    What side will you take?
    Some historical knowledge will definitely not hurt while watching this film.

    The medieval society was deeply religious. The church influenced every aspect of people's lives from birth to death and was part of the state. It means religious leaders were as important as rulers.

    In Russian society men were wearing beards and women covered hairs. Remove a beard from a man or uncover woman's hair and you will humiliate them, they would feel like modern people being undressed in public.

    Paganism is a form of religion, where people believe in many gods instead of one. The main Russian pagan gods are the goddess of the earth and the god of the sun. Among others - the god of storms and lightning, the mythical young women living in forests and rivers. Despite many centuries of suppression of paganism by authorities some in modern Russia still celebrate the feast of Ivan Kupala (which could be translated as Ivan Gathering) depicted in the movie.

    Also I have to mention, that Soviet censors told Tarkovski the movie is too cruel. They told him the scene with a burning cow, for example, is absolutely unacceptable. Tarkovski tried to defend the movie. The cow wasn't harmed, was his reasoning. Still the film was cut. The censors knew better what is good and what is not for the viewer.

    This brings us to what is the message of Tarkovski in this film. There are many messages actually. I'll be telling only about one here, because it is not hidden. It is there, in the dispute between Rublov and Theophanes The Greek. They both are talented, both want to bring people to humanity. Theophanes is tired, he says - common people live in darkness, they are completely consumed by sin and the only way to make them humans is to scare them and punish them. Rublov advocates for love. He says: people live very difficult life, it's amazing how they endure it. We have to love them, to remind them, they are humans, they are Russians. You see, the first is the position of the Soviet system, the second - of Jesus Christ.

    Me? I'm still sitting on the fence. :)

    I recommend to watch this movie many times. You will do it without my recommendation though, if you (like me) will not understand everything from the first view and you like to think. The mesmerizing beauty of this movie will help you to return easier. For the first time be prepared for not a cakewalk. There are two things to consider here. One is the cruelty. Though it is absolutely necessary in this film, most of us living in a comfort of modern society are not ready to it. The other is the pace. Often it is a pace of real life.

    Peace.
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    • Vadim_
    • Mar 21, 2005

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    • Release date
      • October 1973 (United States)
      • Soviet Union
      • Russian
      • Italian
      • Tatar
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    • Filming locations
      • Assumption Cathedral of the Dormition, Vladimir, Russia
    • Production companies
      • Mosfilm
      • Tvorcheskoe Obedinienie Pisateley i Kinorabotnikov
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    • 3 hours 25 minutes
      • Black and White
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