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Thursday, May 31, 2012

Valaam, island of the monks - Documentary

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“Valaam, island of the monks”, is a documentary by François Lespes (French Documentary Director), about the Russian Orthodox monastery of Valaam, an island in Lake Ladoga, frozen in ice eight months a year.
This documentary aims to discover the daily life of the monks, in the large main monastery, and in hermitages lost in the woods. Working the land, struggling with the elementsicon painting, Holy liturgies in the night : a life of constant struggle with themselvesrooted in prayer and perpetual obedience.

Inspired by the oldest eastern monastic traditions, this monastic life, often unknown in the West, has generated the greatest saints of Russian history.
The film is currently under production and will be aired for the first time on the french catholic TV (KTO) during the fall of 2012, and will be available with English subtitles.
François Lespes aims to familiarize the western audience with the treasure of Orthodox spirituality, in particular the Russian Orthodox Monasticism.



2 comments:

  1. i came across your website through various searches, starting off trying to find out more about the film VALAAM.

    i have been a secret Slavophile for over 30 years. when i won a major poetry award, in 1981, the first thing i did was buy an expensive live liturgy from Zagorsk with part of the prize money.

    i got interested in Russia through Michael Bourdeaux & Keston College, who archived & translated & published religious samizdat smuggled out from Russia, since the 1960's.

    in 2008, i finally got a valid opportunity to visit St Petersburg, to help renovate a Christian youth centre. as a result of being there i wrote a suite of Russian poems. i would love for your website to publish them. they are quite unusual in the way that they present Orthodoxy, initially to Western readers, who know little about such, even still….

    click arrow >> in link to read the text

    http://cowbird.com/story/23289/Evening_Tramride_Into_New_Year/

    http://cowbird.com/story/7042/Five_Old_Fashioned_Home_Made_Hats/

    http://cowbird.com/story/38468/A_Summer_Pastoral_Scene_In_Rural_Russia/

    Slava Tebey Gospody!

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    1. I'm not interested, but I appreciate your offer.

      Regards

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