With this towering epic, Andrei Tarkovsky waded deep into the past and emerged with a visionary masterwork, tracing the renowned icon painter Andrei Rublev through the harsh realities of 15th-century Russian life while vividly conjuring the dark and otherworldly atmosphere of the time. Presented here in Tarkovsky’s preferred 183-minute cut—the version that was originally censored by Soviet authorities—Andrei Rublev (1966) is an arresting meditation on art, faith, and endurance, and a powerful reflection on the expressive constraints of the director’s own time.