"MOSFILM Studios" "ANDREI RUBLEV" "Scriptwriters:" "Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky Andrei Tarkovsky" "Directed by Andrei Tarkovsky" "Director of Photography Vadim Yusov" "Sets" " Evgeny Chernyaev Ippolit Novoderezhkin" "Music by Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov" "Sound Operator Inna Zelentsova" "Andrei Rublev" " Anatoly Solonitsyn" "Cyril" " Ivan Lapikov" "Daniil Cherny" " Nikolai Grinko" "Theophanus the Greek Nikolai Sergeyev" "God's Fool" " Irma Raush Boriska" " Nikolai Burlyaev" "Grand Duke, Minor Duke Yuri Nazarov" "Yuri Nikulin, Rolan Bykov Nikolai Grabbe, Mikhail Kononov" "ANDREI RUBLEV" "Part One" "Gimme a strap." "Now give it a push." "I hope we'll make it." "Come on, unfasten it." " Yeah, in a minute." " Do it." "Cut the rope!" "Poke a firebrand at his mug." "I'm flying!" "Efim!" "What's going on?" "I'm flying!" "Arkhip, I am flying!" "Hey you, come and join me." "Arkhip!" "SKOMOROKH. 1400" "I guess they've got lots of daubers in Moscow." "No matter, we'll find some work." "Sure, but it's a shame..." "My, I never noticed this birch before." "When you know you won't see it anymore..." "Is it beautiful!" " Right." "Ten years." " Nine." "Nine for you, ten for me." "It's raining." "Let's go." "Come on, we won't soak." "A band of skomorokhs - you hear?" "" "Indulged too much in home-brewed beer." "And a boyar who came their ways" "They did begin to loudly praise." "The boyar is poorly, what?" "The boyarina is hot." "She puts out but not for all." "Hey, boyarina, rat-tat." "Your boyar is back." "Says the boyar," "You skomorokhs, are thieves and sots." "You should be flogged, yeah, From Friday till Friday." "Bums, hoboes and weirdies, May you choke with your beers." "Just you wait till you're impaled." "Here they grabbed him" "Beneath his navel, above his knee" "And laughing and bluffing," "Shaved him clean." "Hairless!" "What a disgrace!" "Even women have hair in the right place." "Hopping like a flee, the boyar cries bitterly." "So he heads for his home" "And knocks on the door." "His woman looks out and cries, Io!" "She didn't recognize him with his beard off." "And hit him - bang!" " on the forehead." "Shame and disgrace!" "Put pants on your face." "Our boyar hit the road, Geese cackling him off." "A priest mistook him for a wench" "And to the thicket dragged the wretch." "For with his pants down" "His front and back would look the same." "Could we sit the storm out here?" "Come on in." "Some homebrew?" " Thanks, we don't drink." " Nor lay them gals." "God made a priest and satan made a skomorokh." "Hey you, come over here." "Give it to him." " Where were you?" " In the courtyard." "Let's go, shall we." "Danila!" "The rain is over." "Let's go." "Many thanks, madam." "THEOPHANUS THE GREEK. 1405" "Have mercy." "I am not guilty." " Perhaps he's not guilty." " It's a frameup." "Is any living soul in here?" " Want to have a look?" " Yes." "Welcome." "We're going to oil-dry now." "So you are Theophanus the Greek?" "That's right." "Why're you looking at me?" "Look at our work." "And where do you come from?" "The Andronnikov monastery." "So you must be Andrei Rublev." "Oh no." "I've heard of him." "Everybody praises Rublev." "He is a master." "But he could never do this." "The paints are so quiet." "My God, if it isn't..." "Why did you stop praising me?" "Go on." "I can't." "Can't speak smoothly." "It is rightly said," ""You can grasp the essence of every thing if you name it correctly."" "And Andrei..." "I'll say it right to his face." "He's like a brother to me." "They heap praises on him, yes." "He lays paints gently and skilfully." "But he is lacking" "fear - and faith!" "The faith that comes from one's heart." "And simplicity." "As Epiphany said about St. Sergius' virtue," ""Simplicity without flourishes."" "That's what it is." "You couldn't have said better." "I would say you are a philosopher." "D'you think it's good?" "Why not follow the dictates of your heart in the darkness of ignorance?" ""For in much wisdom there is much grief."" ""He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow."" "Where's the drying oil?" "Whose ears should I box?" " Has everybody vanished?" " I hear you work fast." "I have to." "I get bored quickly." "I'd been messing with it a week once, and gave up." " Threw it away?" " Why, no." "I pressed sauerkraut with it." "I'm fed up with it all." "Plenty of apprentices and not one of them brainy." "Don't know their ABCs." "Would you like to work for me?" "Are you pulling my leg?" "Not at all." "I need somebody to help me do the Annunciation Cathedral in Moscow." "Scaffolding has already been put up." "Don't think I'll cope." "I'll tell you all there is to tell." "You've got the brains." "Those dolts do it somehow." "I said no." "Period." "As you wish." "You may regret it some day." "I don't forgive easily." "It's a sin." "You liked to discuss books with a poor monk and you choose to do him good." "I haven't touched a book for over two years." "And I'm not going to." "Mine is a different path." " I will die soon." " Don't say such things." "Yes, I will." "I dreamed of an angel." ""Come with me", he said." "I said I'd die soon anyway." "So will you change your mind?" "Deal." "But there's one reservation." "What is it?" "Money?" "Is fifty-fifty alright?" "I'll work for free." "Only you come for me to Andronnikov." "Ask me to work for you and be your apprentice" "in front of the community, and Andrei Rublev." "And I will slave for you till my dying day." " And what is your name?" " Cyril." "Orthodox believers, truth lovers and Christians!" "How long are you going to torture the villain?" "When are you going to stop?" "Unthinkable sinners, you dare judge him." "Have you no fear of God?" "The Prince commands you to come to Moscow." "You'll be doing the Annunciation Cathedral with Theophanus the Greek." "He is Andrei Rublev." "Is that right?" "Yes, he is Rublev and I am Cyril." "Theophanus the Greek wants you in Moscow." "I thank Theophanus." "Tell him" "I'll be there." "My pate is splitting." "Get some apprentices and come tomorrow." "Any smithy around here?" "Behind the chapel." "Farewell, God's folks." "Why not start out today?" "Just pack up and set off." "Before Theophanus has changed his mind." " I am not going." " How's that?" " I can't do without you." " That's your problem." "I thought we'd go together." "Why think for me?" "I wasn't asked." "I can't go without you." "Yes, you can." "You didn't ask me." "Theophanus just beckoned you." "Don't take it close to heart." "You're not the first and not the last." "And I've got heaps of things to do here." "Very well then." "Thomas, Alexis, Peter, get ready." "You are coming with me." "Rejoice, Oh young man, in thy youth." "Let thy heart cheer thee, in the days of thy youth," "And walk in the ways of thine heart..." "But know thou that for all these things" "God will bring thee into judgment." "Remember now thy Creator..." "While the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say," "I have no pleasure in them." "While the silver cord be not loosed, nor the golden bowl be broken, nor the pitcher be broken at the fountain." "Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was;" "and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it." "Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity." "Cyril, have you seen Father Nicodimus?" "I haven't seen him since morning." "He took my mittens and vanished into thin air." "I gotta lay in firewood and the logs are ice cold." "Why are you burning the torch?" "It's morning." "Did you feed my dog?" "You didn't ask me, did you?" "Left something?" "I've come to say goodbye." "You did." "Just to say goodbye." "My heart was heavy." "Then the devil embroiled us." "I can't live with it." "I must confess." "Will you take it?" "I won't make it, Danila." "We've shared a cell for years." "I've got no one but you." "I look at the world with your eyes." "I listen to it with your ears." "With your heart..." "I'm glad for you, you stupid head." "I wish you knew how much." "Go to Moscow, paint..." "and I'll be proud of you." "As for the words I said earlier, it was the devil's work." "I'll be back, Danila." "Where are you going?" "It's the evensong soon." "You can pray without me and I will do without you." "What's wrong with you, Cyril?" "I am fed up with telling lies." "I'd rather be a layman." "Why did we leave the Trinity monastery?" "Say it!" "Because the monks put profit before faith." "Here we meant to serve God and what came of it?" "The monastery now looks like a market-place." "Take it." "How many serfs did you give to become a monk?" "And you followed the Superior and bargained with him." "For a water-meadow you wanted eternal beatitude for yourself." "You know it very well, only you won't say it." "Perhaps I would suffer this abomination if I had some talent or an aptitude for icon painting." "But God didn't give me talent, thank goodness." "I am happy that I am untalented, that is why I am honest and innocent before God." "There's one more thing I want to say, brethren." "What can you say that we don't know?" "Do you know what happens to the likes of you?" "Out of my sight, you, serpent's breed." "You'll do well in the world, Godless creature." "I say, Cyril..." ""And Jesus went into the temple of God" ""and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple," ""and overthrew the table of the moneychangers," ""and the seats of them that sold doves," ""and said unto them," "My house shall be called the house of prayer."" "And you made a den of thieves of it." "PASSIONS FOR ANDREI. 1406" "I washed brushes for Danila for 3 years before he trusted me to clean an icon." "Do you trust me?" "You lie at every step." "You came yesterday." "Your cassock was tacky." " Where were you?" " In the bee-garden." "And you told me it was the Andronnikov monastery." "You are a sight." "Wash it away or you'll swell up like a boar." "No use." "It's too late." "You are making up stories without end." "Can it be a disease?" "What disease?" "It must be a disease when a man tells lies and can't stop." "Look, Thomas." " Look where?" " Oh you blockhead." "Why on earth did I make you my apprentice?" "Didn't you say to Theophanus:" ""This one is bright and he likes azure."" "You worked hard then and did not lie." "And Theophanus said about your azure:" ""Big deal, azure."" "And you eat too much." "I wonder how you can paint after that." "What can I think of when my tummy is rumbling?" "All I hear is the rumbling." "Lucky dog, Thomas." "All's well and good for you." "It is only through praying that your heart can come from the visible to the invisible." "Lo!" "What is that?" "So you choose to leave the apostles on the left." "Did you take the glue off the stove?" "So he likes azure." "He must be flogged on Saturdays." "Where have you seen all this now when everybody is fearing for his ass?" "Moscow women gave their hair to Tatars for a levy." "It's better to shed one's hair than suffer indignities." "Customarily" "Russian women are humiliated and unhappy." "But that's another story." "Tell me frankly: are our people benighted or not?" "They are." "The question is who is to blame." "They are benighted because of their stupidity." "You have no sins." "Is it because you are ignorant?" "I do have sins." "O God, forgive me and humble me." "The Last Judgment is coming." "We will all burn out like candles." "And lay the blame at each other's door." "And try to embellish ourselves before the Almighty." "How can you paint being in this frame of mind?" "And you accept praises." "I'd have taken the vows of schema and live in a cave." "I serve God, not men." "They praise you today and vilify tomorrow." "The next day they'll forget why they praised you." "They'll forget you and me - everything." "Everything is vanity and decay." "All follies and vile deeds were committed in the past and men are only repeating them now." "If Jesus came again, they would crucify him again." "If you only remember evil things you will never be happy before God." "Maybe you should forget some things, not all." "I don't know how to say it." "Don't say it then." "Listen to me." "Do you think you can do good single-handed?" "Do good?" "Do you remember the New Testament?" "Jesus collected men in temples and taught them." "Later they came to kill him." ""Crucify him!" they cried." "And His disciples?" "Judas betrayed Him, Peter denied Him." "They all fled." "And they were the best of the best." "But they repented." "Yes, when it was too late." "Sadly, men do evil things." "Judas sold Christ." "And who bought Him?" "The people?" "Pharisees and scribes." "A witness was never found, try as they would." "And who could slander the innocent?" "The crafty Pharisees were old hands at bluffing." "They had learned to read and write and used the people's ignorance to advantage." "People should be reminded that they are human beings that Russian people are of one blood and one land." "Evil is everywhere around." "And there are always those who would sell you for 30 coins." "New and new trials are heaping on the Russian men..." "Tatars, famine, pestilence." "But they keep on working." "And carrying their cross humbly..." "They never despair but resign themselves to their fate only praying to God to give them strength." "Won't the Most High forgive them their ignorance?" "You know it..." "Something goes wrong or you get tired, and then" "you meet somebody's eyes and feel like you have received communion, and feel better." "Is that not true?" "Jesus may have been born and crucified to reconcile God with man." "Jesus came from God, so He is almighty." "He died on the cross - it was predestined." "His crucifixion and death were God's deed." "It had to arouse the hated not of those who crucified Him, but of those who loved Him." "They loved Him as a man but He, of his own will, forsook them showing injustice or even cruelty." "Do you know what you are saying?" "You may be banished to the north to restore icons." "Am I not right?" "Don't you always speak your mind?" "I do." "For I'm a layman, a free man." "FESTIVITY. 1408" "Over here, Sergius." "Right." "You make the fire." "Thomas, let's pick some firewood." "Peter hasn't seen the Assumption or St. Dmitry cathderals." "When he climbs scaffolding, and daubs a little, he'll know what this is about." "We won't make it before wintertime." "June is around the corner." "What's with you?" "Hold it." " Nightingales." " Nothing more?" "Listen." " What's that?" " Come, come." "Witches' sabbath." "Where are you going?" " Come to me." " Wait." "I see a black rascal, like, hiding." "Those God's servants." "They are so nosey." "Let me go." "We will, first thing in the morning." "And now we'll put a boulder on your neck to help you reach your destination." "Fire will come from heavens and will burn you." "The Last Judgment will come." "Now we'll attach you to this cross-piece like Jesus Christ." "Please don't." "You can't do this to me." "It's a sin." "Tie me head down if you must." "Let him hang." "Let him stay for the night, unless he rises." "Why head down?" "It would've been quite bad." "Why'd you abuse us?" "Threatened to burn us with fire?" "It's a sin to walk around naked and all that." "This is the night when everybody must love." "Is love a sin?" "Do you call it love tying a man?" "What if you would bring bodyguards or monks to convert us to your faith?" "D'you think it's easy to live in fear?" "You fear because you live without love or your love is sinful and bestial." "Instead of brotherly." "No matter." "It's love." "Please untie me." "Where were you?" "The dense thicket." "My body is all bruised." "But the locals don't mind." "They are used to it." "People live by habits." "I guess old folk don't even use their brains." "Their lives pass in the same old rut." "I suppose they like it when time drags on from dawn till dusk without end." "Look at you." "Scratched and bruised all over." "Aren't you ashamed of your learners?" " Couldn't you come earlier?" " No, I couldn't." "You sin, you repent, you pray." "Catch her!" "Run, Martha!" "Can't you catch the stinking guy?" "What have you done?" "The damned heathens don't believe in one God." "Don't look, Sergius." "You don't want to see this." "Your Prince won't last long and we'll live like we lived." "Help, Theodore!" "Let me go." "Don't go." "She'll drown you before you know it." "Martha, swim!" "THE DAY OF JUDGMENT." "SUMMER, 1408" " Thomas!" " What do you want?" "May I go take a dip?" " No way." " It's hot." "It's not hot." "Don't lie." "Let him go bathing." "All he wants is to bathe." "Hot indeed." "Okay, you want to take a swim, go and take a swim." "Come on, go." "What are you waiting for?" " Where's Andrei?" " Out." "The thing is..." "I mean..." "I come to see the bishop..." "The place is a perfect pandemonium." "The bishop, red in the face, is running around in his underwear." ""My patience is running out", he says." "Meaning you." ""Everything was set two months ago" ""and those idlers have done nothing." ""They demanded heaps of money and haven't moved a finger."" " Did you ask a lot?" " What are you talking about?" ""I don't care if it's" ""Daniil Cherny or Andrei Rublev", he says." "Yeah, he said that and wrinkled his face." ""Yes, he is Rublev." ""He is Andrei." "So what?" ""I want the cathedral done" ""by autumn!"" "He sent a messenger to complain to the Grand Duke." "I think you should know." " Where is Andrei?" " Gone again." "Why don't you start without him?" "Don't laugh." "There are many of you around here." "You can do it." "Many wits are better than one." "For shame, Andrei." "A messenger was sent to complain to the Prince." "Just say yes or no." "We fixed it in Moscow, discussed every detail." "The Grand Duke said it was good." "Now what is not clear?" "Why are we arguing all the time?" "Maybe I am old and out of my mind?" ""The Day of Judgment." Go and do it." "Shall we drop the whole thing?" "Yes, let's drop it and go back home." "How will I look people in the face?" "I'll die of shame." "It's warm and dry and we are wasting our time." "We could've finished the dome and the pillars by now." "Could have done it vibrantly and beautifully." "We could've painted the sinners boiling in tar, so that it would make one's flesh creep." "I've contrived a demon..." "Smoke from his nostrils..." "Smoke is not the point." " What is?" " I don't know." "I can't." "I can't paint this." "I hate it." "Can you understand it?" "I don't want to frighten people away." "Can't you see?" "It's "The Day of Judgment"!" "It is not my invention." "I can't." "Why didn't you say it in Moscow?" "We shouldn't have agreed." "That's foul play." "I am what I am." "I quit." "This work is not for me." "Thanks for your kindness, for your clips." "You've taught me some things, I'm gonna do some real work," "I was asked to do a church in Pafnutievo." "Small honor, but for real." "It's "The Day of Judgment"." "Who's coming with me?" "All right, stay here but don't have regrets later." "Though I speak with the tongues of men and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass." "And though I have the gift of prophecy, and have all knowledge and all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing." "And though I give away all my goods and I give my body to be burned," "and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing." "Charity suffereth long, and is kind;" "charity envieth not, vaunteth not itself... is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;" "rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;" "believeth all things, hopeth all things." "Charity never faileth:" "but prophecies shall fail, and tongues shall cease, and knowledge shall vanish away." "For shame, Princess." "D'you think it's good?" "It's a sin to splash milk." "It's bad." " Why is it a sin?" " Because..." " Mop it up." " It'll dry of itself." "Let's go for a walk to the river." "Let me go, do let me go." "Do you like it?" "Couldn't be better." "Light and beautiful." "Light..." "Get her out of here." "You've spoilt her." "No one can make you a better mansion than us." "Look at the colors." "And the carving." "Mitya here can carve without marking." "It comes naturally to him, like a bird's song." "Could be a bird's song, yes." "But you are a Grand Duke, aren't you?" "Don't you like it?" "It must be repainted, the walls and the ceiling." "But brighter and more powerfully." " I've been doing this for 40 years." " So use your skill to glorify the Grand Duke." "We will not alter a thing." "We have to do another job." "Your brother is waiting for us in Zvenigorod." "They've already brought stone." "It's good." "Whiter than this one." "When your brother came here at Easter we made a deal." ""I give you a free hand, just make a super mansion for me."" "So Zvenigorod will it be." "The Prince just froze still." "When I mentioned Zvenigorod?" "He's afraid his brother will outdo him." " Who did this?" " Me." "Why didn't you set it into the wall?" " Couldn't manage it." " A fine beast..." "It crumbles." "I told the Prince not to stint money on stone." "He's probably sorry now." "I would show him for stinting money." "Goat, look lively!" "Where is Stepan?" " Where is Stepan heading to?" " Zvenigorod I guess." "Good." "I've soiled my hands." " Is the stone better?" " Yes." " Look, it's the lieutenant." " What does he want here?" "Hold it, foreman." "Hey, jerk, give him a hand." "Where's my whip?" " Nikolai!" " Mitya!" "Has anybody seen my whip?" "Gee, I have lost my whip." "Sergius, read the Scripture." " What passage?" " Take your pick." "Now I praise you, brethren, that you remember me and keep my ordinances." "But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ;" "the head of the woman is the man;" "the head of Christ is God." "Every man praying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head." "Every woman that prayeth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head." "For that is even all one as if she were shaven." "For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn." "But if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn, let her be covered." "For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, foreasmuch as he is the image and glory of God:" "but the woman is the glory of the man." "For the man is not of the woman, but the woman of the man." "Neither was the man created for the woman but the woman for him." "For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head." "Neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman..." "Go on." "For as the woman is of the man, even so as the man also by the woman; but all things of God." "Judge in yourselves:" "is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?" "Doth not even nature itself teach you, that if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?" "But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her." "Why did you stop?" "Read on." "It is a glory to her:" "for her hair is given her for..." "Hey, Danila." "They are celebrating." "It's a holiday!" "They are not sinners." "Nor is she, even if she doesn't wear a cover." "A sinner indeed." "Leave him alone." "Let the servant of God repent."