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Andrei Rublev (film)

A film about faith, artistry, and medieval Russia.

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The film is set in early 15th-century Russia and loosely based on the life of the icon painter Andrei Rublev.[1] It has been restored to its original version and is regarded as one of the greatest films of all time.[2] Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky and co-written with Andrei Konchalovsky, the 1966 Soviet film Andrei Rublev is an epic biographical historical drama.[3]

Making and release

Tarkovsky believed faith is necessary for art, commenting on faith's role in the secular, atheist society of his time.[4] Due to its themes of artistic freedom and religion, it was not released domestically in the Soviet Union until years after completion, except for a single 1966 Moscow screening.[5] He characterized creative work as the sole viable mode of existence for an artist, a deed that cannot be undone.[4] Initially called The Passion According to Andrei, the film faced censorship during the Brezhnev era's first decade.[3]

At the 1969 Cannes Film Festival, a version of the film was screened and received the FIPRESCI award.[5] A censored cut of the film saw a Soviet release in 1971.[5]

What the cited sources add

The Open Library record for ISBN 9781442268425 lists the 2016 publisher of "Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema" as Rowman & Littlefield.[6]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Andrei Rublev (film)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Hoberman, "Andrei Rublev: An Icon Emerges", The Criterion Collection (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Andrei Rublev (film)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Andrei Rublev (1966)", British Film Institute; "Critics' top 100", bfi.org.uk; "Directors' top 100", bfi.org.uk (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Andrei Rublev (film)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Peter Rollberg, "Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema", Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, p. 47-48 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  4. Wikipedia, "Andrei Rublev (film)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Tarkovsky, "Sculpting in Time", The Bodley Head Ltd, 1986, p. 43 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  5. Wikipedia, "Andrei Rublev (film)" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Turovskaya, "Tarkovsky: Cinema as Poetry", Faber and Faber, 1989; "Festival de Cannes: Andrei Rublev", festival-cannes.com (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Open Library record, ISBN 9781442268425 ("Historical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Cinema"). CC0 (metadata); book content not read. openlibrary.org

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Andrei Rublev (film) (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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