Andrei Rublev (60th Anniversary)

Part of our Sculpting in Time: Andrei Tarkovsky season, celebrating the work of Tarkovsky with all seven of his feature films on the big screen. 

See any 3 films in this season for £24 when you book them together  – simply add the tickets to your basket and the offer will be applied at check-out.

Regarded by many as Andrei Tarkovsky’s finest film and named Best Arthouse Film of all Time by The Guardian, Andrei Rublev is an epic tale about the great medieval icon painter and chronicles a turbulent period of Russian history. 

Faced with the brutalities of the world outside the monastery, Andrei Rublev begins to question the role of art in a depraved world and takes a vow of silence. After many years of silent travelling around medieval Russia, he meets a young boy who has taken charge of the construction of a large silver bell, and in him discovers the inspiration to speak again. 

Opening in Moscow in 1966, Andrei Rublev was suppressed by the politically sensitive Soviet authorities until the 1969 Cannes Film Festival, and didn’t reach Britain till 1973.