I offered life (1994)

The filmmakers watch a video recording.

Video footage of the events of August 1991 in Moscow and the USSR on a TV screen, off-screen Porfiry Ivanov talks about the essence of his teaching. P. Ivanov during meditation.

Ivanov with followers of his teaching.

Ivanov's face, talking about his teaching, on a TV screen.

Ivanov demonstrates the capabilities of the human body in cold conditions.

Ivanov and his followers walk barefoot and in light clothing in the snow.

Village houses and a well on the Verkhniy Kondryuchy farm.

Portrait of Ivanov in his youth.

View of a village house.

Icon of the Mother of God and a jug on the windowsill, a table by the window.

Photograph of Chuvilkin Hill, where Ivanov experienced enlightenment.

Summer vegetation, sunflower.

Portrait of Ivanov in his youth.

A snowstorm is sweeping, off-screen Ivanov talks about his "enlightenment".

Ivanov stands naked on the street in a winter snowstorm.

Ivanov's face.

Photographs of Ivanov's followers on Chuvilkin Hill.

Train passengers at the compartment window, a woman looking out the window at the roadside scenery, a voice-over is heard from one of Ivanov's followers.

The interior of Ivanov's home.

Ivanov enters the room naked, wearing only his underwear.

A woman's face behind the train window, roadside scenery (combined photography).

People who came to the Verkhniy Kondryuchy farm to see Ivanov, expecting to talk to him.

People who received Ivanov's advice leave for the station and say goodbye.

A woman stands in the yard of the house, a voice-over is heard from her about meeting and talking with Ivanov.

Children playing.

A woman beats egg yolks with an electric mixer in the kitchen.

Women are preparing dinner.

Children playing.

Ivanov runs barefoot across a meadow in his underwear.

Ivanov's face.

Ivanov walks across the grass.

A photo portrait of Ivanov.

Ivanov walks naked and barefoot across the snow in winter.

A photo of Ivanov during a walk in the winter forest.

A woman talks about her meeting with Porfiry Ivanov, about communicating with him (synchronously and off-screen).

Photo portrait of Ivanov.

Ivanov conducts a healing session.

Residents of the farm by the fence, off-screen there is a story about the Teacher - Porfiry Ivanov, about his help in building a house.

Photo of Ivanov with one of the residents of the farm.

Leontyev is lying on the bed in his house, two women are sitting next to him, one of them is combing Ivanov's hair (operational footage of the Ministry of Internal Affairs).

Residents of the farm in their yard.

Reflection of the sun and tree branches in the water in a barrel, panorama of part of the yard and the neighboring house behind the fence.

A young man lays out pillows for airing.

Faces of the residents of the farm and guests listening to the story about Ivanov's help in building a house.

A woman in the yard shakes out a bedspread.

Photo portrait of Porfiry Ivanov.

Ivanov walks through a spring garden with an elderly woman in his arms, both are barefoot, people’s stories about Ivanov’s stay in special medical institutions are heard in the background.

A woman pours ice water on Ivanov, who is standing by a well.

Ivanov moves around the yard, holding on to a fence.

Ivanov on the street in winter among his followers.

Ivanov and his comrade in an ice hole pour ice water on themselves.

A stream of water in a summer stream, Ivanov explains his method of hardening off-screen.

Water pours into a bucket.

Ivanov in the yard in winter pours ice water on himself from a bucket.

Ivanov’s face.

A man and a woman at home, their story about the Teacher and about Ivanov’s help to arriving people is heard in the background.

A photo portrait of Ivanov.

A photograph of the residents of the farmstead near the house built by Ivanov for the poor, sick and humiliated, who want to come for help.

The residents of the farmstead sit down at the table for lunch on the occasion of the opening of the house.

Ivanov communicates with the villagers sitting at the table.

The faces of the people who came to Ivanov.

A photograph of Ivanov's follower Valentina Leontyevna, who receives people in need of help.

Valentina Leontyevna pours ice water on a man in the yard.

Photographs of Valentina Leontyevna with the people who came for help.

A resident of the village, Petr, who became Ivanov's follower after Valentina Leontyevna's death, among his fellow villagers.

Petr and his fellow villagers give an interview to the authors of the film in the house built by Ivanov.

The faces of the people listening to Petr.

Petr's wife in the house at the long table.

People, standing at the long table in the yard, read a prayer before eating, while a story about people coming to the village from all over Russia and the former USSR is heard in the background.

People walk among the trees on the outskirts of the village.

People who came to the village, in the yard of the house built by Ivanov.

The authors of the film examine photographs of Ivanov, sheets of paper with notes of Ivanov's advice.

Publications about Ivanov in the press, photographs of Ivanov and Valentina Leontyevna.

Ivanov among the people he helped, people thank Ivanov.

Ivanov's farewell on the platform.

A circular panorama of a well-yard in St.

Petersburg (below).

A garbage dump in the yard.

Girls in bathing suits in the yard pour ice water over themselves using Ivanov's system.

A woman talks about the use of Ivanov's methods and their positive consequences, about the spiritual instructions of the Teacher (synchronously and off-screen), apple blossoms on a branch.

A man walks across the yard, leaning on a stick.

Girls in a house perform a song accompanied by two guitars.

A craftsman making another guitar, the interior of the workshop, a portrait of Ivanov on the wall (panorama).

Men and girls perform a song to the accompaniment of a guitar, a woman sits at the piano and listens to the song.

People listen to the song.

A family eats soup in the kitchen.

Panorama of a city block under construction from a train window, with stories of people who have solved their problems thanks to Ivanov's advice heard in the background.

Photos of Ivanov.

A man and a woman standing on the paving stones of a yard pouring ice water over themselves from buckets.

Photograph of Valentina Leontyevna.

Faces of guests at the wedding of Ivanov's followers.

A radio and a lamp on a table, a portrait of Ivanov on the wall, a room interior.

Faces of people who have come to the farm for advice and help.

Panorama of a part of the yard of a house, people sitting in the yard.

Views from the window of a moving electric train.

Passengers in a carriage.

Women and men on the farm preparing food for arriving guests.

A cook in the cooking shop of a canteen.

Distributing lunch to arriving people.

People eating while sitting at tables.

Ivanov gets out of the car, walks down the city street barefoot and in his underwear.

Ivanov walks through a winter park, past people strolling, people making amateur films and taking photos.

Ivanov walks down the street of the microdistrict naked and barefoot.

Ivanov lies in the snow under a tree.

People in swimming trunks and a bathing suit with buckets of water in their hands are going down the stairs of an apartment building.

A family with a child is pouring ice water over themselves in the yard.

View of part of a winter park.

Winter landscape (panorama), a blizzard is sweeping, people are walking into the distance across a snow-covered field, Ivanov's voice is heard off-screen.

A man is going down into an ice hole.

Panorama of a winter swimming area.

A man is dipping children into an ice hole.

A girl is going down into an ice hole.

A woman is walking toward an ice hole.

A woman is swimming in an ice hole.

A man is dressing a girl after swimming in an ice hole.

A woman is pouring ice water over herself from a bucket.

Military school cadets are skiing past.

Faces of people who have arrived at the farm.

Pyotr is talking to people, explaining to them the meaning of Porfiry Ivanov's teaching.

People bathe in the river in early spring, a woman carries a child in her arms, dips him into the water.

People gather for a group photo on the beach near the Peter and Paul Fortress, a photographer with a camera in his hands (panorama).

Water in a stream.

Rural summer landscape in the morning fog.

Landscapes in the vicinity of the Verkhniy Kondryuchy farm, women rise from the river after dousing themselves.

Reflection of clouds in the water.

Children run along the road.

A girl goes into the water against the background of the sun.