Andrei Rublev (1966) was Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky’s second feature film. And while his debut, My Name is Ivan (1962), was the work of someone with a well-developed visual singularity, Rublev ...

Many art historians believe that Andrei Rublev was the greatest painter of the 15 th century, and his religious icons still adorn churches throughout Russia. In analyzing Rublev’s art, it would be ...

It is hard to think of many filmmakers more out of step with contemporary aesthetic trends than Andrei Tarkovsky, which is what makes the renewed audience interest in this Russian master’s work all ...

In the most powerful section of Andrei Rublev, Andrei Tarkovsky’s hugely ambitious 1966 epic of medieval Russia, a young man whose village and family have been destroyed by the plague convinces the ...

Andrei Tarkovsky’s first major film (1966, though banned and unseen until 1971), cowritten by Andrei Konchalovsky, about a 15th-century icon painter. This medieval epic announced the birth of a major ...