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“It could be worse”: On Tarkovsky’s final film, faith, and the mystery of sacrifice

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In a journal entry from 1982, the legendary Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky described his struggle to believe: The most important thing and the hardest is to have faith. Because if you do have faith, then […]

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