Andrei Rublev is the 1971 Soviet film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky that features the medieval icon painter.
The film is a historical drama about the Russian icon painter Andrei Rublev, who lived around the turn of the fifteenth century. Tarkovsky structures the work as a series of episodes about artistic creation, violence, faith, and responsibility rather than as a conventional cradle-to-grave biography.
Its title is sometimes associated with Pandora-related trivia because “Pandora” is one of the film’s international distribution and festival contexts in some catalogs, but the film itself is not a retelling of the Greek myth. The canonical title is Andrei Rublev, named for the historical artist.
Tarkovsky directed several major films, including Solaris, Stalker, and Ivan’s Childhood. Those titles are frequent mix-ups because they are also celebrated works in his filmography, but only Andrei Rublev centers on the medieval icon painter.