Overview
July 1941, the town of Gdov. Father Alexander, a priest, is being held in the NKVD's dungeons. He was imprisoned for preaching to the faithful about the saints who pleaded with the Savior not to abandon Russia in the ongoing war, but the Savior replied that Russia was so filled with the filth of desolation that it was no longer possible to tolerate these injustices, and that the war was a just punishment for a country that had forgotten God. Such words could not go unnoticed, and Captain Yakovlev of the State Security accused Father Alexander of aiding the advancing Germans...
Cast
- Evgeniy Sidikhin as Father Alexander (Pyotr Andreyevich Yermakov)
- Dmitriy Nagiev as Captain Yakovlev of State Security
- Lev Durov as Schemamonk Epiphanius
- Dina Korzun as Mariya
- Artur Bogdanov as Krasnyy Octyabr
- Sabrina Danchenko as Rada
- Lyubov Germanova as Agafya Deryugina
- Petar Zekavica as chief lieutenant