Andrei Rublev (#34)

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 scenessnow 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 directors preferred 185-minute cut as well as the version that was originally suppressed by Soviet authorities, the masterwork Andrei Rublev is one of Tarkovskys most revered films, an arresting meditation on art, faith, and endurance.

SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES

New 2K digital restoration of the directors 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, Tarkovskys 1961 student

thesis film

The Three Andreis, a 1966 documentary about the

writing of the films 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 Sen

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