50th International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg

ln carefully conceived, poetic black and white images of a graceful, pastoral landscape the director succeeds in telling the story of the hidden world of the old believers, which is brought to life by the Orthodox Liturgy.

A passionately differenciated portrait of the inner life of two people. Thanks to the excellent, expressive power of the actors, the audience is confronted with an interior landscape of the soul, seldom seen in films today.