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| | Barnes & Noble.com - Andrei Rublev -- Andrei Tarkovsky - DVD - Wide Screen |
 | | Rublev leaves his remote monastery to paint a great cathedral, but in his travels he encounters a chaotic landscape of pagan rituals, medieval brutality, and destruction wrought by the Tartar conquest. |
 | | Widely recognized as a masterpiece, Andrei Tarkovsky's 205-minute medieval epic, based on the life of the Russian monk and icon painter, was not seen as the director intended it until its re-release over twenty years after its completion. |
 | | Commissioned to paint the interior of the Vladimir cathedral, Andrei Rublev (Anatoli Solonitsyn) leaves the Andronnikov monastery with an entourage of monks and assistants, witnessing in his travels the degradations befalling his fellow Russians, including pillage, oppression from tyrants and Mongols, torture, rape, and plague. |
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