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Sanctification of an Icon Painter: Andrei Rublev (1966)

Criteria: The Catholic Film Podcast

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The Passion Sequence

The film is about a boy who has his beard shaved. His wife can't distinguish his head from his butt, so he walks on his hands and his pants dropped down with a face drawn on his butt. The gesture gets arrested in the movie for this like lewd, you know, act making fun of the boy are. And this is also what gets cut by the Soviets,. Is there not just a commentary just in that? Yeah. Because the context is this discussion of like, it's kind of like the willing of suffering in divine providence.

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