Andrey Rublyov (1969) - Andrei Tarkovsky

Andreiv
Rublev charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent
period of 15th Century Russian history, a period marked by endless
fighting between rival Princes and by Tatar invasions.

“Andrei
Rublev is the most Russian of films, emblematic of what everyone finds
so fascinating and so maddening in the way Russians do things”

"Prospective
film makers still study Andrei Rublev today to see a master at work.
While Tarkovsky’s use of lighting, fog and shadows are reminiscent of
the Japanese master Akira Kurosawa, Tarkovsky adds his own genius in
arranging dozens of actors and extras’ individual parts into a single,
extended shot. The single shot scene involves the Tartars showing up to
rape and loot another Russian village. Here Tarkovsky’s work did not
escape controversy, as several animals were killed in the course of the
filming, including a horse that was shot by the crew and then impaled
on screen by a Tartar warrior.In spite of Tarkovsky’s depiction of the
Russian Orthodox Church and the boyars as cruel, we can see why Soviet
censors cut twenty minutes from Andrei Rublev and almost banned the
picture. The film is profoundly spiritual, anti-materialistic, and its
heroes are all suspicious of worldly authority. After Tarkovsky
completed filming in 1966, Soviet censors vacillated for five years on
whether to permit the film to be shown at all. Finally, in 1971, they
did allow it to be shown in the USSR. But the world did not get to see
the film Tarkovsky envisioned, all 205 minutes of it, until 2004."

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