Ларс фон Триер как Иван Карамазов

The article is devoted to the creative work of the contemporary Danish director and scriptwriter Lars von Trier. The author puts forward and substantiates a hypothesis about the kindred character of his cinematographic work to the artistic world of F. M. Dostoyevsky. The multiple parallels are interpreted as a consequence of von Trier’s reproduction of the worldview that Dostoyevsky reflected in the image of his Ivan Karamazov.