Purification (1990)

Director: Dmitri Shinkarenko

The film is based on the story by L. Andreev "The Life of Vasily of Thebes" about the fate of the village priest Vasily, who, after going through a great many misfortunes, renounces God in order to regain his true faith through even greater grief.

Cast

Aleksandr Baluev

Anna Kamenkova

Vladimir Treshchalov

Fyodor Valikov

Valeri Gatayev

Sergey Gabrielyan

Aleksandr Chislov