The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.
- Awards
- 4 wins & 1 nomination
- Durochka
- (as Irma Raush)
- Patrikey, monakh
- (as Yu. Nikulin)
- Skomorokh
- (as R. Bykov)
- Stepan, sotnik Velikogo knyazya
- (as N. Grabbe)
- Foma, monakh
- (as M. Kononov)
- Starshiy liteyshchik
- (as S. Krylov)
- Tatarskiy khan
- (as B. Beyshenaliev)
- Aleksey, monakh
- (as A. Obukhov)
- Sergey
- (as Volodya Titov)
- Efim
- (as N. Glazkov)
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- TriviaFor the scene where the cow is on fire, it was covered in an asbestos coat that protected it from actually being burned. But for the scene where the horse falls down the stairs, it was shot in the neck by director Andrei Tarkovsky. The crew acquired the horse from a slaughterhouse where it was going to be shot the next day.
- GoofsIn the final scene, set in 1424, Rublev vows to paint an icon of the Trinity. This icon was executed in 1410, 14 years earlier.
- Quotes
Andrei Rublyov: You just spoke of Jesus. Perhaps he was born and crucified to reconcile God and man. Jesus came from God, so he is all-powerful. And if He died on the cross it was predetermined and His crucifixion and death were God's will. That would have aroused hatred not in those that crucified him but in those that loved him if they had been near him at that moment, because they loved him as a man only. But if He, of His own will, left them, He displayed injustice, or even cruelty. Maybe those who crucified him loved him because they helped in this divine plan.
- Alternate versionsWhen released in the UK, the sight of a horse falling off a staircase was cut from this title.
- ConnectionsEdited into Ombres vives ...une autre histoire du cinema... (2013)
But there is another thread, one that eschews selfaware structure -- where idea is anathema. Nature is celebrated. Rich intuition and meditative spontaneity are sufficiently nutritious in some hands, but these are amazingly few. The so-called 'new wave' tried it, at least initially. Lots of other appearances as well, mostly failures, some lovely. Among the attempts, I know of only two filmmakers who have mastered this tricky approach of avoiding knowledge: Tarkovsky and Malick. Of these, Malick is more abstractly sensual.
After all, Tarkovsky must deal with that dark cloth of Russian self-pity, that tradition of grand themes and epic fate, something which does not burden Malick. So the metaphoric content is heavy. That's fine, an acceptable skeleton for a nearly three hour meditation. All is self-referential: a set of images about an imagemaker: the actor's wife played the retarded girl who factors so importantly. During the production he was cheating on her with who was to become his second wife. The girl goes off with a Tartar, leaving Rublev. Many other scenes refer to Rublev's situation, resolved by Tarkovsky's action. For instance, we have a sequence where Rublev hesitates to paint a scene of fateful pain. This is followed by Tarkovsky doing just that. The extension of metaphor among parts of the film (ballooner and bellringer to Rublev's story) extends from the film to the filmmaker and thence from him to us.
What I found even more interesting was his confidence in complex compositions and long, long multiperspective tracking shots. Compared to other swoopers, this camera seems curious, impetuous, not at all as if the shots were planned. Hard to believe it is only his second feature. This alone expands one's imagination with only a couple viewings, but combined with the notion of folded metaphor (including visual metaphor) it becomes a truly great and singular work.
(Some classical symmetries touch multiple places: a jester within the play; solitude in the context of relationship; creating in the unknown; broken symmetry through one twin killing another. Some new ones: pagan fire and water underlying ritual exuberance, either sex or religious art.)
Alas, the DVD has a discouragingly vapid commentary. But then I guess that's the whole point, and with the loss of potatohead Soviets, we need to substitute the next best thing.
- tedg
- Apr 12, 2002
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- Андреј Рубљов
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- Budget
- RUR 1,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $124,189
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $11,537
- Sep 15, 2002
- Gross worldwide
- $173,596
- Runtime3 hours 9 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1