Oh ça vaaaa, j'ai mis des gants et un smiley.

C'était bien ton film?

Ah bon je m'énerve là? tu me connais pas chéri

C'est bon tout le monde. Vous pouvez vous ruer dessus.

The first cut ("The Passion According to Andrei") was made by Tarkovsky and was shown only once for the Dom Kino professional audience (running for 205 minutes). Because of its length and featured graphic violence, the Soviet State cinema ministry, the Goskino, requested Tarkovsky to cut the film down. This shorter version (186 minutes) received the title "Andrei Rublev" and went to Cannes film festival in 1969, where it won the FIPRESCI prize. This version was released in several Western countries and also in the Soviet Union in 1971 (and this is in fact the version which is now released on BluRay and was published by RUSCICO, Krupny Plan etc. before).

Basically, both of these versions were edited and authorized by Tarkovsky. The first cut (which was released by Criterion as the "Director's Cut") also features some alternative takes. According to Tarkovsky's sister, Marina Tarkovskaya, one of the editors of the film, Lyudmila Feiginova, secretly kept a print of the first, original cut in her home, under her bed. This was basically the source for the Criterion version. (As a matter of fact, I wonder if they can source a hidef transfer from this copy...)

According to some sources, at the end, Tarkovsky was convinced that the 186 minute cut was in fact better.

Merci, je pense que je vais mater celle-là du coup. J'ai maté vite fait, j'ai rien vu de spécial sur la ration mais je suis moins tatillon (et surtout j'ai moins l'oeil) que toi sans doute.

According to Tarkovsky's sister, Marina Tarkovskaya, one of the editors of the film, Lyudmila Feiginova, secretly kept a print of the first, original cut in her home, under her bed