MARK LE FANU is a writer on film who has contributed to Sight and Sound, Positif and The
East-West Review. A former Research Fellow at Downing College, Cambridge, he now teaches at University College London, UK. He is the author of The Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky (1987) and Mizoguchi and Japan (2005), which was shortlisted in its year of publication for the Kraszna-Krausz Book Award.

General Editor's Introduction
Introduction
CHAPTER 1: Russia: Tarkovsky, Eisenstein and Christianity
CHAPTER 2: Poland: A Trio of Catholics
CHAPTER 3: France: The Apostasy of Robert Bresson
CHAPTER 4: Italy: Christianity and Neo-Realism
CHAPTER 5: Scandinavia: Lutheran Interludes
CHAPTER 6: Spain: The Heresies of Don Luis
CHAPTER 7: Russia Again: Millennial Faith and Nihilism
Afterword
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Bibliography
Index