Description
Father Alexander, a priest from Demidov in the Smolensk region, has a surprising secular passion: he never misses a ballet premiere at the Bolshoi or the Mariinsky. Although the Church doesn’t forbid such interests, his dual life raises the question of how an Orthodox spiritual life intersects with contemporary art.
About the director:
Denis Shabaev
Filmmaker, cinematographer. Studied at VGIK (workshop of Igor Geleyn) and graduated from the School of Documentary Film and Theater of Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov in 2013. His films Together (2014), Not My Job (2015), Mira (2018), New World (2022), and Above the Sea Level (2022) have been featured at major festivals, receiving accolades at Visions du Réel, GoEast, POFF, Kinotavr, Flahertiana, Stalker, and Message to Man.
