Tarkovsky Andrey Rublev, the life of icon painter in Old Russia The Passion According to Andrei (Russian: Страсти по Андрею), is a 1966 Russian film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky from a screenplay written by him and Andrei Konchalovsky. arkovsky sought to create a film that shows the artist as "a world-historic figure" and "Christianity as an axiom of Russia’s historical identity"[1] during a turbulent period of Russian history
