From the insert in the DVD:

When Andrei Tarkovsky's dark, startling Andrei Rublev first materialized on the international scene in the late 1960's, it was an apparent anomaly - a pre-soviet theater of cruelty charged with resurgent Slavic mysticism. Today, Tarkovsky's second feature seems to prophesy the impending storm.

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