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Andrei Tarkovsky was an iconic film maker in the Soviet Union. His film 'Andrei Rublev' tells the story of the 15th-century icon painter Andrei Rublev whose status as a national hero didn’t stop the Soviet censors from intervening throughout the making of the film. They banned initial screenings and it wasn’t shown in Russia until 1988, after Tarkovsky’s death.

Tom Service went to Tarkovsky’s former apartment in Moscow – just opposite the MosFilm studios - to meet the film critic Daria Borisova.

This is the eighth of Ten Icons of a Russian Century, part of the Radio 3 season Breaking Free: A Century of Russian Culture.

Photo: (left) Andrei Tarkovsky (director) and (right) actor Anatoly Solonitsyn, on the set of the 1966 film 'Andrei Rublev'.
(With thanks to the Andrei Tarkovsky International Institute for the photograph)