The film describes the events leading up to, and including, the massacre of the adults of a small town in Nebraska by their children, after the adults' irresponsibility ruins the crop and the children's future.
15世纪初,俄罗斯动荡时期。著名圣像画家安德烈·卢布廖夫(安纳托里·索洛尼岑 Anatoli Solonitsyn饰)在大公的邀请下前往莫斯科为教堂作画,受到了贵族式的服务与对待。然而,卢布廖夫却身处在一个饱受鞑靼人铁蹄践踏和充满灾难残杀的悲惨时代。目睹了黎民百姓在大公暴政下的水深火热,卢布廖夫毅然离开教堂返回修道院。不久,卢布廖夫被迫再…