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Andrei Rublev (1966)
Tarkovsky made a three and a half hour film about an icon painter who stops painting, and the authorities buried it.

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[icon:CLOCK] Runtime | 185 minutes
[icon:STAR] Director | Andrei Tarkovsky
[icon:CHART] Budget | $900,000
[icon:FIRE] Cinematography | Vadim Yusov

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A Biography With The Work Left Out
Almost nothing is known about the real Andrei Rublev, so Tarkovsky built the film out of the fifteenth century around him instead: a peasant trying to fly a balloon, a pagan festival by a river, a Tatar raid on Vladimir, a bell being cast by a boy who may be lying about knowing how. Rublev walks through these episodes largely as a witness and spends much of the film under a vow of silence, having decided that a painter who has seen what he has seen has no business making beautiful objects. The film is about whether art is permissible in a violent world, and it answers by refusing to show a single one of his paintings until the last ten minutes, when the picture turns to colour and simply looks at the icons.

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Watching Andrei Rublev
4 Attempted
3 Denounced
4 Tempted
5 Sacked
3 Withdrawn
5 Cast

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Goskino cut the film repeatedly and kept it off Soviet screens for years. It was shown at Cannes in 1969 out of competition at four in the morning, a compromise designed to satisfy nobody.

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The bell casting sequence used a real furnace and a full size mould, and Tarkovsky shot the cooling and the raising in sequence over weeks so the crew's exhaustion is in the film.

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It's better to do nothing than to do something bad.

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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060107/
Andrei Rublev on IMDb: full cast and crew