Studies On The Religious Identity Of Andrey Zvyagintsev’s Movies

Audrey Zvyagintsev’s film creation has started from the beginning of the new century, represented a higher level of the new generation of the Russian film director. His films rooted in Russian culture and the social reality and draw nutrition from the excellent great director, such as Bergman, Tarkovsky and so on. Polysemy and fable style are the main characteristics of the images, filled with complex imagery and metaphor. Andrey Zvyagintsev’s movies films show both the reality of the scene and the common people’s living conditions. And he also turned those themes back to the archetypal lineages of religion and mythology by letting the Christian classical doctrines land on the face of normal life at the same time. He has made the persons in his films to speak the word of the God and act as religion reporting measure ethics. In his movies, the expressive power of the image show in the level of the spirits. Honesty and faith religious sense of ceremony is rubbed into the life of the body, constituting a mysterious and rich "reading" in the film.