“…Here, in the 1930s, famous philosophers, scholars, engineers and writers spent the last days of their lives. …”

“…Andrei Mikhalkov-Konchalovskii wrote the scenario, which was originally titled “The Passion according to Andrei” and Tarskovskii used the fact that it did not record much about the painter's life by making a biographical film projected with his own philosophical and theological vision of an artist. Rublev in the film is not portrayed as a saint at the peak of his art, but as an incredibly human monk, who takes a route of sufferings wandering at the bottom of life to reach the truth of art. …”