A film about the revolutionary events in Russia and their reflection in the cinema.
In the film, the following motion picture: the face of Jesus Christ on the Shroud of Turin, interviews abbot Tikhon (synchronously), building a studio newsreel interview granddaughters father John - rector of the Resurrection church in Sokolniki in Moscow (synchronously).
Types of Chrysostom, performance of the national artist of the USSR MD Mikhailov (synchronously).
The audience walks in the park, along the river, sitting in the theater, at a football game, dancing.
Priest Dmitry Dudko passes over the bridge, sitting on the riverbank.
Seminarians in the classroom, icon workshop.
General view of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra.
Patriarch Alexy I study.
General view Pochayevskaya laurels.
Interview priest D. Dudka (synchronously).
The film includes newsreels, including the coronation of Nicholas II (1896), Leo Tolstoy in Yasnaya Polyana, fragments of the film "Father Sergius" celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Battle of Borodino, the participants of the defense of Sevastopol (Crimean War).
Chronicle of the First World War, the royal chronicle, Bishop Tikhon (future Patriarch) at the dedication of the railway bridge in the city of Yaroslavl, Congress Living Church 25. 08. 1925, Amur Zemsky Sobor in 1922.
May 9, 1917 on Red Square (St.
Nicholas Day), the destruction of churches in the 20s, Academician Ivan Pavlov in the garden, the chronicle of the Great Patriotic War, the meeting of the Local Council, Youth Festival in Moscow in 1957.
Calendar: 1996