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Mosfilm
Directed by: Andrei Tarkovsky
Featuring: Anatoly Solonitsin, Ivan Lapikov, Nikolai Grinko, Nikolai Sergeyev, Iram Raush Tarkovskaya, Nikolai Burlyaev, Yuri Nazarov, Rolan Bykov, Yuri Nikulin, Mikhail Kononov
Tracing the life of a renowned icon painter, the second feature by Andrei Tarkovsky vividly conjures the murky world of medieval Russia. This dreamlike and remarkably tactile film follows Andrei Rublev as he passes through a series of poetically linked scenes—snow falls inside an unfinished church, naked pagans stream through a thicket during a torchlit ritual, a boy oversees the clearing away of muddy earth for the forging of a gigantic bell—gradually emerging as a man struggling mightily to preserve his creative and religious integrity. Appearing here in the director’s preferred 185-minute cut as well as the version that was originally suppressed by Soviet authorities, the masterwork Andrei Rublev is one of Tarkovsky’s most revered films, an arresting meditation on art, faith, and endurance.
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Technical Specifications
Format:
Blu-ray
Discs:
BD-50 (2 Discs)
Total: 2 Discs
Regions:
A (Blu-ray)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35:1
Audio Options:
Russian PCM Mono 1.0
Resolution:
1080p/24
Subtitles:
English
Supplements
Types of Supplements Included: Audio Commentary, Alternate Version, Short Film, Documentary, Interview, Video Essay, Insert
- The Passion According to Andrei, the original 205-minute version of the film
- The Steamroller and the Violin, Tarkovsky’s 1961 student thesis film
- The Three Andreis, a 1966 documentary about the writing of the film’s script
- On the Set of “Andrei Rublev,” a 1966 documentary about the making of the film
- New interviews with actor Nikolai Burlyaev and cinematographer Vadim Yusovby filmmakers Seán Martin and Louise Milne
- New interview with film scholar Robert Bird
- Screen specific audio essay by Harvard film professor Vlada Petric
- New video essay by filmmaker Daniel Raim
- An essay by critic J. Hoberman
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Restoration Information
Andrei Rublev
Restoration by:
Mosfilm
Year: 2006
Scanned at: High-Definition Digital
Restored at: High-Definition Digital
Sources:
35mm Internegative
Release Notes on Restoration
Andrei Rublev
Andrei Rublev is presented in its original aspect ratio of 2.35:1. Black bars at the top and bottom of the screen are normal for this format. This new digital transfer was created in high definition resolution on a Spirit DataCine film scanner from a 35 mm internegative and restored by Mosfilm. Additional restoration was performed by the Criterion Collection. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, scratches, splices, and warps were manually removed using MTI Film's DRS, while Digital Vision's Phoenix was used for jitter, flicker, small dirt, grain, and noise management.
The original monaural soundtrack was remastered from a soundtrack negative, Additional audio restoration was performed by the Criterion Collection,
The original monaural soundtrack was remastered from a soundtrack negative, Additional audio restoration was performed by the Criterion Collection,