Reflections on religion, spirituality, substitution of concepts, the meaning of words in culture and in the life of each person, a comparison of the influence of religion and Bolshevism on the minds of people and the structure of society as a whole.
The interior of the church.
Burning candles in front of the altar.
A woman is standing near the font.
Tree branches.
View of the church at the end of the road.
Krasnoyarsk Territory, Ovsyanka village, a conversation between critic V.Ya.
Kurbatov and writer V.P.Astafyev.
Tree branches.
A woman with a child in her arms, a priest reads a prayer off-camera.
Burning candles.
An icon on the altar.
A crucifix and other church paraphernalia.
Continuation of the conversation between V.Ya.
Kurbatov and V.P.Astafyev.
The camera moves to the tree branches.
Garden herbs.
A mug on the table. V.P.Astafyev.
A mug and glasses on the table.
The interior of the church, a fragment of the service. V.P.Astafyev.
Candles are burning in front of the icon.
A crowd of people on the street.
Alternation: writers sitting at a table in the garden, rally participants on the streets of Krasnoyarsk.
Monument to V.I.Lenin.
People's faces.
An elderly man holding a banner.
A veteran.
An elderly woman holding a poster and a sculpture of V.I. Lenin.
An elderly man. V.P. Astafyev, continuation of the interview.
Faces of the demonstration participants.
A woman holding a child in her arms in a church.
Icons on the walls.
A priest reading a prayer.
A crucifix and books.
The priest turning the page. V.P. Astafyev talking about his work in the press.
Mugs on the table. V.Ya.
Kurbatov.
A branch with wild apples on the table.
A man twirling a sheet of paper in his hands. V.P. Astafyev.
Fragment of a rally.
Elderly people with banners.
A pile of brochures and magazines on the asphalt, people walking past. V.P. Astafyev reasoning.
Burning candles in front of an icon.
A priest conducting a child's baptism ceremony. V.P. Astafyev.
Tree branches.
View of the church at the end of the road.
Wild apples and mugs on the table.
General view of the table and benches.
Astafiev V.P. - front-line soldier
writer
Hero of Socialist Labor. Kurbatov V.Ya. -- literary critic
literary scholar
prose writer
Member of the Union of Writers of Russia.
Krasnoyarsk Krasnoyarsk Krai