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ON THE RELIGIOUS VIEWS OF ANDREI TARKOVSKY (BASED ON THE SCENARIO “LIGHT WIND”) // ΠΡΑΞΗMΑ. Journal of Visual Semiotics. 2014. Issue 2 (2). P. 75-87

The article discusses Andrei Tarkovsky’s religious views expressed in his works and diary 1970. Tarkovsky very carefully considers the problem of man’s relationship to God and the problem of immortality. The most important work of the director in this context is the scenario “Light Wind”, which was not implemented as a movie. The protagonist of the scenario most fully expresses the image of a religious prophet in works of Tarkovsky; director understands God as incomprehensible and infinite depth in the man, and immortality – as an infinite sequence of lives, like earthly life. In these unusual religious beliefs Tarkovsky is the ideological heir to F. Dostoyevsky.

Keywords: Andrei Tarkovsky, the film script Light Wind, religion, immortality