Anatoliy Solonitsyn

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.

A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to a mysterious room where dreams come true.

A dying man in his forties remembers his past. His childhood, his mother, the war, personal moments and things that tell of the recent history of all the Russian nation.

Cosmonauts on a space station have strange hallucinations which seem to originate from the planet they are orbiting.

Winter 1942, Nazi-occupied Belarus. Two Soviet partisans are in search of food supplies for their unit. Commandeering livestock from the local village's collaborationist, they try to get back to their unit, only to be spotted by German troops. The partisans manage to flee from the ensued firefight, but one of them is wounded, setting them on the path of difficult choices as they try to survive.