January 28, 2:00PM
$8 Members, $12 Nonmembers. Pay at the door.
112 Minutes (Russian with English subtitles)
This award-winning 2006 Russian biographical film is about a 20th century Eastern Orthodox monk. Pyotr Mamonov, who plays the lead character, formerly a rock musician in the USSR, converted to Eastern Orthodoxy in the 1990s and lives now in an isolated village. Film director Pavel Lungin said about him that “to a large extent, he played himself.” Mamonov was first very hesitant to play in the film, but then was urged by his confessor to play the character. After the filming, one of the movie crew staff decided to stay on the island and live there as a hermit. There will be an audience discussion following the film.
