THE IMAGES OF FREEDOM IN EUROPEAN CINEMATOGRAPHY: EXISTENTIAL MOTIFS. PART I

The author finds the freedom concepts within existentialist pieces of European cinema of the 1960-1980s to be controversial. The author actualizes the idea of action as the means of freedom display in the context of Marco Ferreri, Stanley Kubrick, Louis Malle, and Andrey Tarkovsky's films. He investigates further the driving forces for such acts of freedom through the prism of their sense and justification as well as the consequences of clashes of freedom principles and principles of personality suppression.