Production :
Телеканал Дождь / Chaîne de télévision Dojd
Plot synopsis
"If the goal is to save souls, then the goal justifies the means." In accordance with the will of his spiritual father, he swore loyalty to non-believers, in the 90s he welcomed drug traffickers into the church, and in the 2000s he transformed the church into an ideological department serving the authorities, and all this to achieve the main goal: the creation of a Russian Vatican, a powerful corporation that does not depend on a Caesar. Like Vladimir Putin, he arrived as a supporter of the West and a modern man and will leave as the guarantor of traditions and a reactionary. The film tells the story of the life and ministry of the sixteenth Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Kirill.