Tracing the life of a renowned icon painter, the second feature by ANDREI TARKOVSKY (Stalker) 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 185-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.
SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New 2K digital restoration of the director’s preferred
185-minute cut, with uncompressed monaural
soundtrack on the Blu-ray
New 2K digital transfer of the original 205-minute
version of the film, The Passion According to Andrei
Steamroller and Violin, Tarkovsky’s 1961 student
thesis film
The Three Andreis, a 1966 documentary about the
writing of the film’s script
On the Set of “Andrei Rublev,” a 1966 documentary
about the making of the film
New interviews with actor Nikolai Burlyaev and
cinematographer Vadim Yusov by filmmakers Seán
Martin and Louise Milne
New interview with film scholar Robert Bird
Selected-scene commentary from 1998 featuring film
scholar Vlada Petric
New video essay by filmmaker Daniel Raim
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by critic J. Hoberman 1966
185 MINUTES
BLACK & WHITE/COLOR
MONAURAL
2-BLU-RAY EDITION IN RUSSIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES 2.35:1 ASPECT RATIO
