By: Tara Murray

Tuesday, February 5, 6:15 pm
Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library on the University Park campus

Join the Center for Global Studies, Department of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Penn State University Libraries, and Penn State Students in Russian for a special
screening of Andrei Rublev.

ANDREI RUBLEV / АНДРЕЙ РУБЛЁВ (1966, dir. Andrei Tarkovsky – with English subtitles)
NEWLY RECOVERED UNCENSORED VERSION with the daughter of the costume designer in attendance “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.”