Vladimir KHOTINENKO
Владимир ХОТИНЕНКО
Vladimir KHOTINENKO
Russia, 2009, 120mn 
Colour, fiction
Pop
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Поп

 

 The Priest

 Pope

Other titles : Преображение (Transfiguration)
 
Directed by : Vladimir KHOTINENKO (Владимир ХОТИНЕНКО)
Writing credits : Vladimir KHOTINENKO (Владимир ХОТИНЕНКО), Aleksandr SEGEN (Александр СЕГЕНЬ)
 
Cast
Yelizaveta ARZAMASVA (Елизавета АРЗАМАСОВА)
Anna GULYARENKO (Анна ГУЛЯРЕНКО)
Anatoli LOBOTSKI (Анатолий ЛОБОЦКИЙ)
Sergey MAKOVETSKY (Сергей МАКОВЕЦКИЙ)
Kirill PLETNYOV (Кирилл ПЛЕТНЕВ)
Kirill POLUKHIN (Кирилл ПОЛУХИН)
Viktoria ROMANENKO (Виктория РОМАНЕНКО)
Yuri TSURILO (Юрий ЦУРИЛО)
Nina USATOVA (Нина УСАТОВА)
 
Cinematography : Ilya DIOMIN (Илья ДЕМИН)
Production design : Konstantin MELNIKOV (Константин МЕЛЬНИКОВ), Olga OSIPOVA (Ольга ОСИПОВА)
Sound : Sergey SASHNIN (Сергей САШНИН)
Produced by : Natalia GOSTIUSHINA (Наталья ГОСТЮШИНА), Sergey KRAVETS (Сергей КРАВЕЦ)
Companies : Fonds culturel "Kino-Telekompaniya Pravnoslavnaya entsiklopediya"
Film revenue in Russia : 1.709 million dollars
 
format : 35 mm

Awards :
Best Actress in a Supporting Role Nina USATOVA , Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2010

Plot synopsis
The World War II. Father Alexander decently ministers on the occupied territory of the USSR — he helps the prisoners of war in word of the Lord and deed, collecting clothes and food for them, guarding those who weak. While he has to tolerate the occupational regime, he goes through doubt, humiliation and suffering, and feels like being between a rock and a hard place… His mission of mercy turns into a tragic trial, making the priest a hostage of the lurid history of the 20th century.
 

commentaries
Comment sont regardés les films sur la Grande Guerre patriotique dans la Russie actuelle ?, Myriam DÉSERT, The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies, 2011
Vladimir Khotinenko : The Priest (Pop, 2010), Seth GRAHAM, kinokultura.com, 2010
Vladimir Khotinenko : The Priest (Pop, 2009), Anthony ANEMONE, kinokultura.com, 2010
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- War in contemporary Russian cinema, kinoglaz.fr (France), 2023
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2012
- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2010
- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2010
- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2010
- Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2010
- International Film Festival : Pacific Meridians, Vladivostok (Russia), 2009
- "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2009