Possibly the greatest movie ever made, Andrei Tarkovsky’s “Andrei Rublev” shimmers and shines… on art, faith and the Russian soul. It’s worth watching … and watching again. It’s a sweeping epic saga about the 14th cantury Russian icon painter of the same name. But it’s so much more. It’s a visual and spiritual feast, over three hours long the film is considered a masterpiece of modern cinema … and rightly so; it is stunning.
Because of it’s religious themes the film was shown only once in Moscow upon its release; it won a prize at the 1969 Cannes Film festival. We link to the wikipedia article on the film.
Mosfilm, the storied Russian film company has put a high definition version of parts one and two. (They’ve disabled embedding, so we link to the two parts below.)
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And here we embed parts I and II.
(Thanks Karin!)
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Art is Life 