Life of the priest and the priest's wife. (1990)

The priest is preparing for the service.

Easter cakes and Easter cakes, ready for consecration.

The priest consecrates the products.

Believers kiss the cross.

The priest's wife Maria Andronovna Zinovina tells.

The priest Ivan Mikhailovich Zinovin comes out of the filming machine.

The film crew drove the priest to the church.

The church in memory of the Blessed Alexander Nevsky.

The temple was built with the money of the residents of the village of Razin Bugor.

Church utensils are taken out of the car.

Rustic landscape around the church.

The priest is hanging up a panikadilo in the church.

Brings more details of the alarm clock.

Mother Maria tells us.

My mother and her assistant are cleaning the church.

The priest cleans and repairs the details of the alarm clock.

The collected alarm clock is lit in the church.

Believers go to the temple.

Service in the temple.

The service is over, the priest is exposed.

Believers disperse from the temple.

Says Father Ivan Mikhailovich Zinovin.

The cat rubs at the feet of the priest.

Bread was brought to the village.

My mother sings an old song and tells the film crew about village traditions.

Water was brought to the temple.

Christening in the church.

Panorama of the surroundings, cows grazing.

The boat is floating on the river.

My mother tells about her acquaintance with Ivan Mikhailovich Zinovin.

The priest cleans up the church after the christening.

Mother washes in the river.

My father is sitting next to me.

Panorama of the river, the banks, the village and the church.

Mother Maria tells us.

The children help the priest to carry the washed clothes.

The priest reads prayers.

Mother prayerfully prepares prosphora for baking.

Says the priest Ivan Mikhailovich Zinovin.

Ivan Mikhailovich answers the uncomfortable questions of the film crew.

The priest reads the appropriate prayers for this occasion.

Mother is baking prosphora in a Russian oven.

The priest and the director listen to recorded conversations and prayers.

Father Ivan Mikhailovich and Mother Maria Andronovna visit the ruins of the church.

Says Mother Maria Andronovna.

People in the village.

Residents of the village.

Monument to V.I. Lenin.

Patients in the hospital.

The ruins of the temple.

View of the church in memory of the Blessed Alexander Nevsky from the river.

Father Ivan Mikhailovich and his mother are sorting firewood.

The priest saws a log, cuts firewood.

The daily life of Ivan Mikhailovich and Maria Andronovna.

The priest reads memorial prayers.

Father Ivan Mikhailovich lights the lamps in front of the icons.

Maria Andronovna is ringing the bells.

Wall painting in the temple.

Ruins of houses in the village.

Icon of Seraphim of Sarov.

Alternating frames with icons and frames of collapsed houses in the village.

View of the temple in summer and winter.

Father Ivan Mikhailovich prepares firewood for the church in winter.

The prayer sounds against the background of the church in memory of the blessed Alexander Nevsky.