Andrei Rublev

“In much wisdom there is much grief.”

The monk Andrei Rublev (Anatoliy Solonitsyn) leaves his monastery and drifts from place to place across fifteenth-century Russia, painting icons as he goes. Andrei Tarkovsky follows him through a country at war, where a battle he witnesses draws him in and he takes a vow of silence. The monk sits still, his brushes put away, a painter with nothing left to say.