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Tales of Mother Frosya about the Diveyevo Monastery

1989 · 26 min

A solemn, firsthand account of faith enduring under persecution, told with quiet gravity and historical weight.

Directed by
Sergey Baranov
Genres
Documentary
Overview
The last Diveyevo nun, Mother Margarita, tells not only the historical, but, most importantly, the spiritual truth - about how the revolution was carried out, how the monastery of St. Seraphim was ruined, how a handful of “Seraphim novices” found the strength to resist the grandiose destructive machine for decades. This ruthless Moloch physically destroyed tens of millions of people, and spiritually almost the entire country, crippled future generations, but could not do anything with the nun, whose spiritual strength and beauty amaze and teach the viewer even today.

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Directed by
Sergey Baranov
Genres
Documentary
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  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • faith
  • survival
  • power
  • corruption
  • trauma
Places
  • single country house
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Action1
Horror3
Humour0
Realism9
Romance0
Tension4
Darkness7
Complexity5
Emotional weight8

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Genres
documentary
Directed by
Sergey Baranov
Written by
Tichon
Runtime
26 min
Country
Soviet Union
Languages
Russian

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