Drama · History
Soviet (Андрей Рублёв)
1966 · Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky · 183 min
Early fifteenth-century Russia, a land of princes, monasteries, Tatar power and peasant hardship. The film follows the icon painter Andrei Rublev through a series of separate episodes, asking what it means to make beautiful things in a violent world. It is slow, physical and unlike a conventional biopic.
Why it matters in cinema history
A central work of Soviet art cinema and one of the most ambitious historical films ever made, it showed that a screen biography could abandon plot and dramatic arcs and still hold an audience.
Watch with intention
Treat it less as a story to follow than as a series of encounters between an artist and the world he is trying to understand.
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