The End of Desire? : Love and the Soteriological Significance of Desire, Hope and Belief in Andrei Tarkovsky's STALKER (USSR 1979)

This article explores the soteriological significance of desire in Сталкер (Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR 1979). At the heart of the film, deep within a paranormal and psychosomatic frontier called the Zone, is a space which signifies the end of all desire: the Room, a preternatural place of mysti...

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Main Author: Lorenz, James
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Karl Franzens Universität Graz 2020-05-01
Series:Journal for Religion, Film and Media
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Online Access:http://unipub.uni-graz.at/jrfm/periodical/titleinfo/4921435