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Confessor

2017 · 42 min

A dry, talk-heavy investigative portrait that asks you to follow a dense web of institutional influence and ideology.

Directed by
Sergey Erzhenkov, Vlad Pushkarev
Genres
Documentary
Overview
He is an influential bishop, a future patriarch, a possible confessor of Putin, a member of the Athos and Izborsk clubs. He is friends with Sechin and Mikhalkov, and lobbies for Vasilyeva's candidacy. The Minister of Culture, Medinsky, waits for him in the corridor for several hours. He is an ideologist of extreme church fundamentalism and a master of hardware games. He is Tikhon Shevkunov, the main character of the documentary film "The Confessor"by Sergey Yerzhenkov and Vladislav Pushkarev.

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Directed by
Sergey Erzhenkov, Vlad Pushkarev
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