Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- Religion and Politics in Soviet and Eastern European Cinema: A Historical Survey -- Part One Institutional Powers -- Blessed Films: The Russian Orthodox Church and Patriotic Culture in the 2000s -- Russian Film Premieres in 2010/11: Sacralizing National History and Nationalizing Religion -- Longing for the Empire: State and Orthodox Church in Russian Religious Films -- A Cinematic Churchman: Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky in Oles Yanchuk's Vladyka Andrey -- Part Two Sacred and Profane Images -- Rethinking History: Heroes, Saints, and Martyrs in Contemporary Russian Cinema -- The Godless Czechs? Cinema, Religion, and Czech National Identity -- Beyond the Surface, Beneath the Skin: Immanence and Transcendence in Györgi Pálfi's Films -- Part Three Conflict, Trauma, and Memory -- Narrating the Shoah in Poland: Post-1989 Movies about Polish-Jewish Relations in Times of German Extermination Politics -- Memory, National Identity, and the Cross: Polish Documentary Films about the Smolensk Plane Crash -- Religion Visible and Invisible: The Case of Post-Yugoslav Anti-War Films -- Index.