Andrey DONCHIK
Андрей ДОНЧИК
Andreï DONTCHIK
USSR (Ukraine), 1988, 30mn 
Black and white, fiction
Gibel bogov
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Гибель богов

 

 La Fin des dieux

 Gibel bogov

 
Directed by : Andrey DONCHIK (Андрей ДОНЧИК)
Cinematography : Mikhail KRETOV (Михаил КРЕТОВ)
Production design : Aleksandr DANILENKO (Александр ДАНИЛЕНКО)
Production : Studio Dovzhenko
 

Plot synopsis
The plot is based on the story of an artist who paints the characters of The Last Supper for the iconostasis of a local church from the villagers. The peasants, from whom the artist paints images of saints, begin to experience a special spirituality, which is extremely disliked by representatives of the new, revolutionary government.