Sergey ERZHENKOV
Сергей ЕРЖЕНКОВ
Sergueï ERJENKOV
Russia, 2020, 81mn 
documentary
Pope of Russia
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Папа русский

 

 Le Pape russe

 Papa russkiy

 
Directed by : Sergey ERZHENKOV (Сергей ЕРЖЕНКОВ)
Cinematography : Sergey ERZHENKOV (Сергей ЕРЖЕНКОВ), Elvira PASHKEIEVA (Эльвира ПАШКЕЕВА)
Produced by : Aleksandra PEREPELOVA (Александра ПЕРЕПЕЛОВА)
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.
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- International Art Documentary Film Festival "Artdocfest", Moscow (Russia), 2020