However, the few critics who were awake to see it liked it enough that it was awarded the festival's Fipreschi Prize, although it would not be seen in the U.S.S.R. for another five years, owing to its overtly religious theme.  
Because of intense pressure from the Soviet government, which tried to block its screening altogether, its premiere was held at 4:00 in the morning on the last day of the 1969 Cannes Festival.  However, the few critics who were awake to see it liked it enough that it was awarded the festival's Fipreschi Prize, although it would not be seen in the U.S.S.R. for another five years, owing to its overtly religious theme.  For 10 points name this masterpiece of Soviet director Andrei Tarkovsky, a fictionalized biography of medieval Russia's greatest icon painter.
Because of intense pressure from the Soviet government, which tried to block its screening altogether, its premiere was held at 4:00 in the morning on the last day of the 1969 Cannes Festival.  
Andrei Rublev (roob-LOFE) (accept Strasti po Andreyu or The Gospel According to Andrei)