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LITURGY OF HEATHENS

By Alexey RYBNIKOV

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Musical - Completed 2018

Liturgy of Heathens - second film-opera of Alexey Rybnikov. It takes us to the end of 40ies, to the era of Stalin's GULAG, concentration camps where hardened criminals were held together with writers, poets, believers in God.

- Year of production
- 2018
- Genres
- Musical, Drama
- Countries
- RUSSIA
- Languages
- RUSSIAN
- Budget
- 3 - 5 M$
- Duration
- 89 mn
- Director(s)
- Alexey RYBNIKOV
- Writer(s)
- Alexey RYBNIKOV
- Cast
- Vladimir KOSHEVOY, Anastasia GORODENCEVA
- Producer(s)
- Alexey RYBNIKOV (CONTEMPORARY OPERA), Tatiana KADYSHEVSKAYA - RYBNIKOVA (Contemporary opera)
- Synopsis
- Liturgy of Heathens - second film-opera of Alexey Rybnikov. It takes us to the end of 40ies, to the era of Stalin's GULAG, concentration camps where hardened criminals were held together with writers, poets, believers in God. Andrey Danilov, a philosopher and writer is arrested for his works where he writes about Life and Death and his Faith in God. He is brought to one of the camps despite his poor health which is degrading day by day. In his dreams in the camp bed, he as the hero of Dante’s Commedia Divina sees Paradise and hell, remembers his past as a boy and his family shot during the October revolution in 1917, in his delirium he also sees his wife he betrayed and who died alone. With the words of best Russian poets form the beginning of past century he speaks about Russia and its sufferance. Danilov is shot with some others, but his words still resonate with his cellmates.