Andrei Rublev is a 1966 Soviet epic biographical historical drama film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky who co-wrote it with Andrei Konchalovsky. The film was re-edited from the 1966 film titled The Passion According to Andrei by Tarkovsky which was censored during the first decade of the Brezhnev era in the Soviet Union. The film is loosely based on the life of Andrei Rublev, a 15th-century Russian icon painter. The film features Anatoly Solonitsyn, Nikolai Grinko, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Sergeyev, Nikolai Burlyayev and Tarkovsky's wife Irma Raush. Savva Yamshchikov, a famous Russian restorer and art historian, was a scientific consultant of the film.
Theatrical release poster
Fresco Bosom of Abraham by the historical Daniil Chyorny (c. 1360–1430)
Christ the Redeemer icon from the so-called Zvenigorod Chin (c. 1410; today at the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow)
Andrei Rublev's famous icon of the Holy Trinity (c. 1410; Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow)
Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky was a Russian film director and screenwriter. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential directors in cinema history, Tarkovsky's films explore spiritual and metaphysical themes, and are noted for their slow pacing and long takes, dreamlike visual imagery, and preoccupation with nature and memory.
Andrei Tarkovsky
Monument to Andrei Tarkovsky at entrance of Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography
Andrei and Larisa Tarkovsky's grave, Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois Russian Cemetery in France
Stamp of Russia, 2007