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Dec 30, 2010dadoffour rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
Fabulous, fabulous film. But don't watch it unless you have a huge amount of patience for subtitles, black and white photography, Russian tales of things that happened about a thousand years ago, and a pace that makes glaciers seem like drag racers. You need four hours on a cold winter night before you can even think about tackling this four part behemoth. It all pays off in the final section with the bellmaker's son. I was fascinated and couldn't stop watching by that point, though I had almost given up many times. The best of Tarkovsky that I have seen, far better than his most famous work, "Solaris", remade recently with George Clooney. "Andrei" could never be remade, noway, nohow.