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SACRED GROUND

SVYATOE MESTO

By Sergey KOZMIN

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Documentary - Completed 2019

ArtDocFest IDFF 2019

Competition

Uzbekistan ArtDocFest IDFF 2020

Artdocfest in Tashkent

FIDBA IDFF 2022

New Directors

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- RUSSIA
- Languages
- RUSSIAN, ENGLISH
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 64 mn
- Director(s)
- Sergey KOZMIN
- Cast
- Andrey KORMOUKHIN, Koba EPSIA, Nickolay PIVOVAROV, Pavel FIRSTOV, Yuri SHUBIN, Vladimir NOSOV, Father Oleg SHALIMOV, Sergey MAKARKIN, Nina ARZIANI, Vlad KOUZNETSOV, Natalia FEDOROVA
- Producer(s)
- Sergey KOZMIN, Artem VASSILIEV (Metra Films), Julia SHAGUINOUROVA (Metra Films)
- Synopsis
- Some time ago they would come here to walk their dogs, play with their kids or jog. Today they are two hostile parties fighting over a patch of ground in a park.
  Every Sunday half of them come to pray by a wooden cross, and another half is there to defend a small spot of land, which they want to stay public.
  Who could have imagined such a confrontation in a country which had been fully secular, even atheistic for decades? Still, a collision between orthodox believers and local dwellers, who don’t want to have a new church instead of a park or a public garden is quite common in the Russian capital these days.
  “200 Churches” development project started by Russian Orthodox Church incooperation with Moscow government provoked several severe conflicts in the city.
  The film focuses on a story of Torfyanka, a small park where contention between the believers and park defenders has turned into a severe struggle with night watches, physicalfights and mutual offence.