Film
Blessed are those who believe. (1999)

Film-document №39553 3 parts, Duration: 0:30:39 to collection Price category G
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Producer Sverdlovsk newsreel studio

Director: I.Persidskij

Script writers: I.Persidskij

Operators: I.Persidskij

Annotation

The film about the role of faith in our life is commented by Priest Viktor Smetannikov

Reel №1

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A church on the river bank.

An Orthodox church.

The priest Fr.

Viktor Smetannikov is walking down the street.

He enters the wooden church.

The interior of the church.

There is a service and confession in the church.

Parishioners receive communion.

The priest is in his office.

Mobile belfry on the railway platform.

A church on wheels .

The church staff set off on their way.

Bishop Sergiy (Sokolov) of Novosibirsk in the church car.

The baptism of children at the intermediate stop of the train.

Priest V. Smetannikov (synchronously).

The priest and the bishop are walking down the street.

Episcopal service in the church.

The priest communicates with the parishioners on the street.

Locations

Novosibirsk
The Chechen Republic

Religion
Social life

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The priest came to the auxiliary farm of the parish.

Agricultural machinery stands along the field.

The priest gets into the tractor.

A pier on the river.

Carpentry workshop.

A wood carver at work.

A woman writes an icon.

Icons in carved wooden kiots.

Printing house.

The printing press.

Orthodox literature.

The priest in the orphanage distributes gifts.

The priest speaks to the prisoners.

V. Smetannikov (synchronously).

Chronicle of the Chechen war.

Soldiers unload the plane.

The priest blesses the soldiers.

Chechnya, the area of military operations (chronicle).

A priest holds a funeral service for the killed soldiers.

Religion
Social life

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A concert for local residents.

The male Orthodox choir "Siberian Singers" sings.

V. Smetannikov (synchronously)

A prayer service on the street in front of the temple.

The procession is led by Bishop Sergiy (Sokolov) of Novosibirsk.

The helicopter is on the take-off platform.

Priest V. Smetannikov among the parachutists preparing for the jump.

Parachutists jump out of a helicopter.

Parachutists in the sky.

V. Smetannikov makes a jump to the North Pole.

The priest Viktor Smetannikov with a cross on his shoulders goes to the place of its installation at the North Pole.

Orthodox cross at the North Pole.

V. Smetannikov (synchronously).

Landscapes.

Orthodox churches.

Locations

Novosibirsk region

Religion
Social life