religious imagery

His films like *The Gospel According to St. Matthew* and *Teorema* use religious imagery to explore spirituality, sacrifice, and the sacred within human experience.

His masterpiece *The Passion of Joan of Arc* and *Vampyr* employ religious iconography and spiritual themes to examine faith, suffering, and the transcendent.

His films such as *Stalker*, *Mirror*, and *Sacrifice* weave Orthodox Christian imagery and metaphysical questions throughout meditative, visually poetic narratives about meaning and redemption.