Andrei Rublev (Andrey Rublev). Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966.
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Edition screened: Criterion Blu-ray #34, released 2018. Russian language with English subtitles. Runtime approximately 183 minutes.
Summary: Primitive brutality to animals.
Details:
1) We hear a dog howling as he is beaten to death below screen, 42:56-43:06, then see his body in the snow, through 43:14.
2) A dead and mauled goose, 48:02-48:16.
3) A trapped cow on fire during a battle, 1:45:50-1:46:05.
4) Long shot of an injured horse being killed, 1:50:08-1:50:15.
5) A horse with a broken leg falls down a flight of stairs, 1:52:51-1:53:11. We see him again at 1:53:25 unable to stand, then impaled through the throat, 1:53:35.
The Criterion BD also includes Tarkovsky’s 1960 family film The Steamroller and the Violin, as well as the original 205-minute cut of Andrei Rublev, The Passion According to Andrei, in which the cow and horse scenes mentioned above are slightly longer and more violent.