Archimandrite Sergius (2010)

A feature film about Archimandrite Sergius, based on real events that took place in 1930 in the Admiralty Sloboda.

Late evening.

A wooden house in the Sloboda.

Washing is drying on a rope.

A child is crying in the house.

A grandmother is calming the child.

A woman lights a kerosene lamp.

There are photographs of relatives on the wall.

A grandmother is telling a child about angels.

A grandmother is telling a baby about Father Sergius.

Close-up, the baby is listening to her grandmother.

A fire is burning in the stove.

A grandmother is telling a baby how Archimandrite Sergius (Zaitsev) appeared in the Assumption Zilant Monastery.

The grandmother continues to talk about the events after 1917.

The grandmother cries and tells how Archimandrite Sergius and the monks of the Assumption Zilantov Monastery died.

Water drips from the samovar.

The little boy quietly listens to his grandmother.

A neighbor came to ask for kerosene.

Grandmother Marusya poured kerosene for her neighbor.

The yard near the house.

The light of car headlights outside the window.

The grandmother says that she is scared because they are taking away believers.

The woman took out an icon and lit a candle in front of it.

Marusya tells her grandson how the church was restored and how services began to be held in it.

Grandmother Marusya tells how the believers prayed in the monastery in the spring.

She looks in the mirror and shares how good it was to pray.

Young leaves on the trees.

Spring.

Buds swelling on the bushes.

A woman walks with a yoke to the river.

Marusya collects water from the river and looks at the dome of the church.

The woman carries water, climbing up the steep bank.

The bird cherry tree is blooming.

The cross on the church sparkles in the sun.

Close-up, the face of the main character.

The grandmother tells her grandson how the church and the monastery were taken away, how the church community was considered unreliable.

The lamp goes out.

The grandmother tells her grandson how she renounced God in a moment of danger.

Marusya lights a candle.

She remembers the words spoken by the Lord Jesus Christ to Peter about renunciation.

A grandmother tells her grandson how the monastery and churches were destroyed.

The son brought the woman a stone from the monastery walls.

The woman took the stone out and examined it.

People prayed to God for 300 years within walls made of such stone.

A grandmother tells her grandson about Archimandrite Sergius and his monks.

A baby in a cradle.

The grandmother remembers everything.

She remembered how Archimandrite Sergius appeared to her in a dream and said that God had forgiven her sins.

The grandmother hopes that her grandson will become a good person and a believer, that the monastery will be revived and that Archimandrite Sergius and the perished brethren will be honored.

Destroyed buildings of the monastery.

The interior of the monastery.

The cathedral is being restored.

The domes of the Assumption Cathedral are being installed.

A memorial plaque has been installed on the walls of the monastery.

The bell tower is reflected in the glass.

A view of the restored monastery.

The bells in the belfry are ringing.

An icon of Jesus Christ in the temple.

An icon of Our Lady of Kazan.

Icon of the Vladimir Mother of God.

On the analogion is the icon of the New Martyrs of the Kazan Dormition Zilantov Monastery.