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 ...

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 ...

Andreiv Rublev charts the life of the great icon painter through a turbulent period of 15th Century Russian history, a period marked by endless fighting between rival Princes and by Tatar invasions.

Love old or unusual movies but never know when they’re on? Here are several I recommend. “Andrei Rublev” (1966): For his massive, three-hour epic about Russia’s most iconic icon artist, filmmaker ...

The name of the late Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky has practically become synonymous with the rigorous extremes of art-house cinema: Either you find the immersive long takes and enigmatic imagery ...