Angel's Aisle Придел Ангела,2008)
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Nikolai Dreiden:
Angel's Aisle - Придел Ангела,(2008)
Director: Nikolai Dreiden
Scriptwriter: Nikolai Dreiden
Cast:
Aleksei Morozov, Emiliia Spivak, Mariia Reznik, Tapani Perttu, Aleksandr Bargman, Artur Vakha, Vitalii Kovalenko, Dmitrii Lysenkov,
Vladimir Matveev,
Khel'ga Fillippova,
Vitas Eizenakh, Oleg Riazantsev
Awards :
Diploma Window to
Europe Film Festival,
Vyborg, Russia, 2008
First prize Film Festival : "Luchezarnyy angel",
Russia, 2008
First prize Historical Film Festival, Russia, 2008
Since its August premier at "Window to Europe-2008," Angel's Aisle has attracted considerable attention. In
Vyborg it received the
Rostotsky Prize for best debut film, in November it won the
Grand Prize at
Moscow's "
Radiant Angel"
Festival and in December earned its director, Nikolai Dreiden, a top prize at
Novgorod's Historical Film Festival "Veche." In
October 2009, the movie placed third in the
International Orthodox Film Festival "
Pokrov" held in
Kiev, behind
Vladimir Khotinenko's
Priest (
Pop,
2010) and
Pavel Lungin's
Tsar (2009). Were we to judge the film by the company it keeps, we might expect yet another pretentious hagiopic that has, of late, come into favor. Fortunately, this proves not to be the case: Angel's Aisle strikes this reviewer as an interesting and honest attempt to create an engaging feature film that promotes spiritual values and personal responsibility.
Billed as a dramatic thriller, Angel's Aisle unfolds in
1924, after
Lenin's death. We are introduced to a young Chekist (Aleksei Morozov), who demonstrates his commitment to the
Bolshevik cause by executing a priest when all around him fail to do so. The operative, himself the son of a priest, is next instructed to pose as a postulant at the
Konevsky Monastery and there await his next target. Under the alias of
Maksim Proshin, he embarks on a journey outside of
Soviet space in pursuit of much larger prey: the
Regent of
Finland,
Carl Gustav Mannerheim (a role Tapani Perttu has often interpreted for Finnish audiences both on stage and screen).
In
Karelia, Maksim encounters the youngster assigned to take him across the border into enemy territory.
The generous, noble Zhenia (a remarkable performance by the then six-year-old Masha Reznik) serves as Maksim's geographical guide and moral compass, forcing him to reevaluate his beliefs and behavior, a process that only intensifies when the two enter the monastic community's life on an island in
Lake Ladoga.
For some the venue and the murderer-protagonist have prompted comparisons with Pavel Lungin's
Island(
Ostrov,
2006). While the twenty-something director demurs, he archly suggests that he approached the issue of sin and redemption from a distinctly
Petersburg perspective. Dreiden has consciously built his tale of crime and punishment upon
Dostoevsky's original, complete with revelatory dreams, the trope of illness and the transformative power of faith and repentance
. ...
Saint John The Russian-full documentary (
English subtitles).
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-939281
Elder Paisios - An Orthodox
Saint of our times.
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-865254
A Saint of our days-Elder
Iakovos Tsalikis.(English subtitles).
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-864668
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv2dTMHVs2k
The Island-(Ostrov).
English Subtitles.
http://ireport.cnn.com/docs/DOC-864883
Subliminal Messages Satanic Teachings of false prophets!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtFcpIIwLxM&feature;=youtu.be
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v529372735aXe85YP
Catholic Or Orthodox?
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v41037316RHekZypb