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Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Image Entertainment
EAN: 9786305257455
Format: Black & White, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6305257450
Label: Criterion
Manufacturer: Criterion
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Publisher: Criterion
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 02, 1999
Running Time: 205 minutes
Sales Rank: 20944
Studio: Criterion
Theatrical Release Date: 1973
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Description:
Immediately suppressed by the Soviets in 1966, Andrei Tarkovsky's epic masterpiece is a sweeping medieval tale of Russia's greatest icon painter. Too experimental, too frightening, too violent, and too politically complicated to be released officially, Andrei Rublev has existed only in shortened, censored versions until the Criterion Collection created this complete 205-minute director's cut special edition, now available for the first time on DVD.
Amazon.com:
At last, the complete version of Andrei Tarkovski's 1966 masterpiece about the great 15th century Russian icon painter (a film suppressed by the Soviet Union and unseen until 1971) is available. It's a complex and demanding narrative about the responsibility of the artist to participate in history rather than documenting it from a safe distance. A landmark in Russian cinema, Andrei Rublev is a beautifully lyrical black-and-white film about harmony and soulful expression. As the late filmmaker says in a supplementary interview, each generation must experience life for itself; it cannot simply absorb what has preceded it. In fact, a whole host of supplements accompanies the film in this Criterion Collection release. Stick with it; it's worth the effort. --Bill Desowitz
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Rating:  - A stunning and thought-provoking film - but not for the faint-hearted or those with ADHD
I watched this movie two days ago and can't stop thinking about it. It is also the first Tarkovsky film that I've seen. I've read quite a bit about his films, but this is the first one that I've watched. I mention this up front so that readers of this review can understand my perspective, I'm still trying to absorb what I saw. In short, this is an incredible, thought-compelling film, probably one of the best ever made. The praise for this film in some of the other positive Amazon reviews is well merited. It is a story about faith and about life, but mostly about figuring out what it is we are meant to do with our lives. Andrei Rublev is a painter of icons and cathedrals in the Orthodox Church in Russia during the late Middle Ages. As a young man he is widely acknowledged as the best at his craft in Russia, and is summoned to work on some of the most important projects. What follows is Rublev's lifelong journey through Russia. We watch his maturity and evolution as he questions the nature of his work and the nature of his faith. He witnesses some of the most brutal, cruel acts and treacheries by both friends and enemies. What really makes this a great film is the timeless nature of it's central theme: will we ever realize what it is we've been put on this Earth to do, even when it is staring us in the face?
This film will definitely take some discipline to sit through for 3+ hours, but you will be richly rewarded. As I was watching the film, I initially had to agree that ... Read More
Rating: - THE LOWDOWN ON THE TWO VERSIONS
I have owned the Criterion edition of this film a long time; I recently bought the Ruscico (Russian Cinema Council) edition and think I should try to make clearer the differences. This is not a critique of Tarkovsky's work -- that is beyond my capabilities.
As you may already know, the Criterion edition is taken from Martin Scorsese's personal print and represents the penultimate version of the film, while the Ruscico edition represents the release version, which is about twenty minutes shorter. However, Tarkovsky did more than pare twenty minutes off the film -- it's actually a somewhat different film, though the differences are not major.
To begin with, the Scorsese print (Criterion) has a completely different set of credit titles and intertitles, and at that stage the film was titled "Strasty po Andreyu" (Passion of Andrei). The release version (Ruscico) is titled "Andrei Rublev" and is not merely shorter: it contains shots that do not appear in "Strasty po Andreyu" (Criterion). Commenting on the DVDs themselves, the Ruscico DVD is much better looking. The subtitles (as one might imagine) are written by someone whose native language is Russian, and that is very important to me. When the subtitles are written by an English-speaker they are rendered in English idioms and subtle, specific meanings are often lost. Sometimes one cannot even tell what a scene is about. (There is a scene in Criterion's "Ivanovo Detstvo", for example, where the English-written subs completely obscure ... Read More
Rating:  - As a film editor I can appreciate it-but not the story
When you work in the world of film, you start to look at things differently then you may have looked at them before. If I was to say that I loved the "story" of 'Andrei Rublev', I would be a liar. In fact, I hated it vehemently as I just viewed it again for the first time in a few years; BUT as a piece of filmmaking art, I can look at the typical Tarkovsky long and lingering shots and appreciate the work of a man in love with his camera. Tarkovsky's work appeals to me, not for his ability (or lack thereof) to tell a story, but to create mood. Now that is not appealing to many people, and certainly not worth the $ to pay for a DVD or VHS copy of this film. (Note: there are several versions of this film available that vary in length due to various edits this film has undergone.)
If you are planning on learning about an religious icon painter named Andrei Rublev, this film will not teach you anything, because what little to nothing is known about him is merely conjecture here on Tarkovsky's part. Tarkovsky's idea of plot is a bell, a jester and tartar hordes which frankly , in my mind, make no real sense; BUT, again, if you are viewing the film to learn about Tarkovsky's work as an artist, by all means rent this. It is, in my view, almost ponderously langorous (if that makes sense!). You must have an attention span that even outlasts mine (which is darned good frankly!).
Rating: - The Most Spiritual Film Ever Made
Tarkovsky digs deep into history itself and reveals hidden truths about the religious experience and the mind of the artist in this epic struggle through the wintry wastelands of medieval Russia. A profound, mystical journey of enlightenment which remains perhaps the most spiritual film ever made.
Rating:  - 3 times in a year...I finally can say that I don't like it
I have a habit of returning to films that I don't care for because I am always interested to see if my opinions will change. This is my third time through "Andrei Rublev" since last winter. I have now spent over 10 hours viewing this film from many angles; I have looked at it from the religious, the political, the pagan, the historical; I have read what precious little there is to read about the real 15th-Century Iconographer; I have read about the writer/director Tarkovsky and his symbolism....and, for me, this film does not reach me on any level. Why?
Tarkovsky wanted to make a statement about his beloved Russia and how he saw it's decline during the Soviet Years. He, along with co-writer Andrei Konchalovsky, chose the character Andrei Rublev, considered to be Russia's greatest iconographer (religious images) and wrote a purely fictional account of the iconographer's life and struggle with art and faith and the conditions that prevailed in 15th-century Russia for peasants and artists under The Grand Prince and also under continuous Tatar Invasions. Through using historical Russian History as a backdrop, Tarkovsky portrays this monk through seven chapters of life from 1400 to 1412. Tarkovsky shows us peasants ,pagans, Tatars, Church Priests, inserts tons of Scripture from Ecclesiastes (the vanity of man) and Paul's First Letter to The Corinthians (the great Love chapter), and attempts to tell the "struggle" of an artisan who is to go from Church to Church and commission to commission ... Read More
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