Gallery
FORGIVENESS Solaris (Tarkovsky, USSR 1972): the end image of Kelvin kneeling before his father is taken from the Rembrandt painting of the prodigal son in the Hermitage, St Petersburg
BETRAYAL Au Hasard Balthasar (Bresson, France 1966): Balthasar the donkey is 'betrayed' into captivity again by his peasant owner pointing him out, like Judas betraying Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane by pointing to him
CRUCIFIXION Rome Open City (Rossellini, Italy 1945): the priest Don Pietro kneels before the Communist Manfredi, tortured to death by the Gestapo
RESURRECTION Ordet/The Word (Dreyer, Denmark 1955): Inger comes back from the dead in the final images