Andrej Rublev – Director’s Cut

Biography of the renowned Russian icon painter: Andrej Rublev (1360-1430).
In the “indivisible holiness of a man who had flown across the sky”, in the people’s suffered truth witnessed by a buffoon, through the temptation of a pagan feast and the confession of a faith experienced as as legalized persecution, in the representation of the passion of Jesus Christ and in the meditation on the Last Judgment, amidst a backdrop of envy, violence, and betrayal perpetrated by religious men, princes, Tartar invaders, and even by Rublev himself through the act of killing an enemy, Andrej Rublev rediscovers his vocation for painting within the story of little Boriska who manages to cast the bell and make it ring. The eight episodes of the film following the vicissitudes of the icon painter monk outline the drama of every artistic vocation, from the naive impetus of youth to the intimate, glorious mercy of maturity.

I knew it would certainly not be a historical or biographical work. I was interested in something else: I wanted to investigate the nature of the poetic genius of the great Russian painter. I wanted to use the example of Rublev to explore the question of the psychology of artistic creativity, and analyze the mentality and civic awareness of an artist who created spiritual treasures of timeless significance.

PRODUCTION: Istituto Internazionale Andrej Tarkovskij
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LABORATORY: Laser S. Film, Roma

IN COLLABORATION WITH: Coevolutions, Cloudpost