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Release year: 1966

Storyline

The life, times and afflictions of the fifteenth-century Russian iconographer St. Andrei Rublev.

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Directors

Andrei Tarkovsky

Writers

Cast

Anatoliy Solonitsyn — Andrey Rublev
Ivan Lapikov — Kirill
Nikolay Grinko — Daniil Chyornyy
Nikolay Sergeev — Feofan Grek

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• Film debut of Anatoliy Solonitsyn, and the first of four movies he made together with director Andrei Tarkovsky before his death from cancer in 1982. Had Solonitsyn lived, he would also have played protagonist Andrei Gorchakov in Tarkovsky's Nostalgia (1983), as well as star in a project titled 'The Witch' which eventually became Tarkovsky's final production, The Sacrifice (1986).

• For 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.

• In a 1969 interview, Tarkovsky stated that the flying man in the prologue is "the symbol of daring, in the sense that creation requires from man the complete offering of his being. Whether one wishes to fly before it has become possible, or cast a bell without having learned how to do it, or paint an icon - all these acts demand that, for the price of his creation, man should die, dissolve himself in his work, give himself entirely."

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