Andrei Rublev Page #2

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and our bishop

ask me to come and help you.

With all our brethren present,

and Andrei Rublyov, too.

Then I'll be like your slave,

I'll serve you like a dog

until I die.

- And what is your name?

- Kirill.

The Orthodox people!

Truth-seekers and Christians!

For how long are you going to torture

the villain?

Will there be an end to it?

You're all great sinners yourselves,

but you take it upon you to judge!

Don't you have any fear of God?

The Prince commands you

to come to Moscow.

To decorate the Annunciation Cathedral,

together with Theophanes the Greek.

Is he really Andrei Rublyov?

That's true. He is Andrei Rublyov.

And I'm Kirill.

Theophanes the Greek tells you

to come to Moscow.

He wants to see you.

I thank Theophanes, too.

Tell him...

that... well... I'll come.

My head is splitting!

Bring it here.

You may take with you

whatever assistants you want.

Tomorrow you'll have to be in Moscow.

Is there a smithy nearby?

I'm afraid I'll fall down again.

There's a chapel outside the gates.

Next will be the smithy.

Farewell, God's people!

We could go today, Danila.

What do you think?

Let's get our things and set out.

Before Theophanes may change his mind.

- I'm not going.

- What do you mean?

- What am I to do without you?

- Do as you like.

I thought we'd go together.

Why were you thinking for me?

I was not invited.

I can't go without you.

You can!

You said 'yes' without asking me.

You were too quick to agree.

Theophanes had only to beckon.

Never mind, though.

You're not the first

and you won't be the last.

I've got a lot of work here

even without you.

Very well, then!

Foma! Alexei! Come on!

Pyotr! Get ready!

You're going with me.

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth;

and let thy heart cheer thee

in the days of thy youth.

And walk in the ways of thine heart,

and in the sight of thine eyes.

But know though, that for all these

things

God will bring thee into judgement.

Remember now thy Creator

in the days of thy youth,

while the evil days come not,

nor the years draw nigh,

when thou shalt say,

I have no pleasure in them.

Or ever the silver cord

be loosed,

or the golden bowl be broken,

or the pitcher be broken

at the fountain,

or the wheel be broken

at the cistern.

Then shall the dust return

to the earth as it was:

and the spirit shall return unto God

who gave it.

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher;

All is vanity.

Kirill!

Have you seen Father Nikodim?

Where could he go so early

in the morning?

He took my mittens

and vanished into thin air.

I have to sort out firewood,

and the logs are ice-cold.

Why do you keep the torch on?

It's morning already.

Did you feed my dog?

You didn't ask me to, did you?

What's the matter?

Go...

Have you forgotten something?

I came to say goodbye.

You already did.

I came to say goodbye, but...

I was feeling pretty bad as it was.

And to make it worse, the devil has

brought about this enmity between us.

I can't leave like that.

I need to confess.

Will you hear it out?

I won't be able to do anything,

Danila.

We've lived in the same cell

for years.

I have nobody but you.

I see the world with your eyes.

I listen with your ears.

With your heart...

I'm happy for you,

you silly man.

You can't imagine how glad I am.

Go to Moscow, paint,

and I'll be proud of you.

The devil tripped me up yesterday

also.

Forgive me, too.

I'll be back, Danila.

Where are you going?

What about the vespers?

You'll serve it without me,

and I'll do without you.

What's the matter with you, Kirill?

I'm tired of it. Tired of lying!

I'm going in the world.

Why did we leave the Trinity?

Why don't you say it?

Because our brothers put their

interests above faith.

And here again? We thought we'd

be serving God by our faith and work,

and what have we got?

Our monastery looks like

a market place.

You, God's servant, how much did you

pay to be ordained? Twenty souls?

And you kept following the prior,

bargaining with him.

For two or, luckily,

for one water meadow,

you wanted to win eternal bliss

for yourself.

You all know it,

but you won't say anything!

You're pretending

you don't notice anything!

I might have kept silent, too,

and put up with all this abomination,

if I had any talent,

or at least some ability

to paint icons.

But God didn't give me talent,

and thank God!

I'm happy that I got no talent,

for because of that I'm honest

and pure before God!

And one more thing, brethren...

What can you tell us

that we don't know?

But do you know

what happens to ones like you?

I'm just...

Get out of here,

you viper's breed!

You'll thrive in the world!

Blasphemer!

You see...

Listen, Kirill...

It is written:

And Jesus went into the temple of God

and cast out all them that sold and

bought in the temple, and overthrew

the tables of the moneychangers

and the seats of them that sold doves.

And said unto them:

My house shall be called

the house of prayer,

but ye have made it

a den of thieves.

THE ANDREI PASSION

I washed Danila's brushes for 3 years

before he trusted me with an icon.

And not to correct it,

but just to clean it.

Do you trust me?

But you're lying all the time!

The other night you came back

with your cassock all glued together.

- Where had you been?

- At the apiary.

And you said you went to

the Andronnikov monastery.

Look at yourself!

Apply some damp dirt to it,

or you'll be bloated like a hog.

It must be too late already.

It won't help.

You're making up things on and on.

I even thought

you might have some disease.

What disease?

There must be such a disease

when a man can't stop lying.

Look, Foma! Look, I say!

- Look where?

- Never mind, blockhead.

I can't understand why I took you

to be my assistant.

You say one thing one day and another

the next. Didn't you tell Theophanes:

"This boy never misses a thing

and he likes the azure"?

You were a different person then.

You tried hard, you never lied.

You know what Theophanes said

about your azure?

"What good is in it, in the azure?"

And you love to eat.

It beats me how you can paint

after that?

Can you think of anything else

when your belly growls?

All you can hear is that growling.

You're a lucky man, Foma.

Everything's plain and simple for you.

Only through a prayer

our soul can discern what's invisible.

Look! What's that?

So, you decided to leave the apostles

on the left?

Foma, have you removed the glue

from the fire?

Have you removed the glue?

He likes the azure!

He should be beaten the crap out of

every Saturday!

Where did you see all this,

when everybody only think

of saving their asses?

Even those women of Moscow gave their

hair to the Tartars as a ransom.

They preferred to go bald

rather than be tortured.

What has unselfishness to do with it?

It's not right to say that.

It has always been that women

in Russia were oppressed and unhappy.

Anyway, it's not what I mean...

All right, tell me in all honesty,

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