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 183-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.

New high-definition digital restoration of the director’s preferred 183-minute cut, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
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
Tarkovsky’s “Andrei Rublev”: A Journey, a new documentary by filmmakers Seán Martin and Louise Milne, featuring interviews with actor Nikolai Burlyaev, cinematographer Vadim Yusov, Tarkovsky’s assistant Olga Surkova, and others
New interview with film scholar Robert Bird
Selected-scene commentary from 1998 featuring film scholar Vlada Petrić
New video essay by filmmaker Daniel Raim
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by critic J. Hoberman
New cover by Nessim Higson