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Still Life and Portrait (PDF format)

 

Ostrov (The Island), in Russian with English subtitles, 2006, DVD.

Director, Pavel Lungin.  Starring Pyotr Mamonov, Viktor Sukhorukov, Dmitrii Diuzhev, Yurii Kuznetsov, Viktoria Isakova, Nina Usatova, Yana Yesipovich, & Olga Demidova.

 

The best representation of Orthodox monastic life ever portrayed on film

 

The story begins in northern Russia during World War II.  A Russian coal barge with a two-man crew is captured by a Nazi patrol boat.  The Nazis force the young cowardly Russian furnace stoker, Anatolii, to shoot his captain.  The Nazis blow up the barge but Anatolii is rescued by monks from a nearby monastery.  Anatolii spends the rest of his life repenting in sorrow, and through this repentance becomes a God-bearing Fool-for-Christ who, with his God-inspired insights into human hearts, gives miraculous help to suffering people who come to him for aid.  Nearing death Anatolii’s own suffering is resolved through a miraculous manifestation of forgiveness. [DVD-9, NTSC, Widescreen, 112 minutes]

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