Sunday, August 30, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Aero Theatre, Santa Monica
### **ABOUT THE FILM:** *In Russian, Tatar and Italian with English subtitles.* With his second feature, a towering epic that took him years to complete, Andrei Tarkovsky waded deep into the past and emerged with a visionary masterwork. Threading together several self-contained episodes, the filmmaker traces the renowned icon painter Andrei Rublev through the harsh realities of fifteenth-century Russian life, vividly conjuring the dark and otherworldly atmosphere of the age: a primitive hot-air balloon takes to the sky, snow falls inside an unfinished church, naked pagans celebrate the midsummer solstice, a young man oversees the casting of a gigantic bell. Appearing here in Tarkovsky’s preferred 183-minute cut, as well as the version that was originally censored by Soviet authorities, Andrei Rublev is an arresting meditation on art, faith and endurance, and a powerful reflection on expressive constraints in the director’s own time. FORMAT: DCP DISTRIBUTOR: Janus Films COUNTRY: Soviet Union