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Andrei Rublev
Great Russian icon painter
References:
The Passion According to Andrei: Andrei Rublev
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky
Cast: Anatoli Solonitsin Ivan Lapikov
Footage: 185min
Year: 1966
Andrei Rublev, a great Russian monk and icon painter was born circa 1360.
The film takes an unflinching gaze at medieval Russia during the first quarter of the 15th century, a period of Mongol-Tartar invasion and growing Christian influence. Andrei Rublev leaves the Andronnikov monastery on account of a commission to paint the interior of a cathedral. In his travels he discerns pillage and oppression from tyrants and Mongols. Rublev's faith is shaken. He begins to quertion the uses or even possibility of art in a degraded world. Rublev takes a vow of silence and withdraws completely.
In the final section Rublev comes upon the casting of a great bell. The bellmaker has died, but his son claims his father 'passed on' the secret of the bell to him alone. He has inherited his father's work. As the bell at last rings out the boy confesses that his father has not passed on his secret after all. He has proceeded on faith, feeling and madness alone. Rublev is drawn to his courage and unselfconscious desire to create and his faith and art have been renewed. Rublev decides to put aside his vow of silence. So we can appreciate The Holy Trinity today.
It is also read as an allegory of Tarkovsky's own struggles as an artist in Russia.
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