I Chose You

A film about a surgeon, doctor of medicine, a member of the Holy Synod V.F. Voino-Yasenetsky, Archbishop Luka. The film uses documents and materials from the archive of the family of V.F. Voino-Yasenetsky, TsGAKFD of the USSR (RGAKFD), Central Museum of Medicine of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, Central Museum of Medicine of Ukraine, Museum of the History of Medicine. P. Stradyn, libraries of the Moscow Theological Academy. The film includes the memoirs of VF Voino-Yasenetsky's colleagues (synchronously and behind the scenes). PART ONE. Crimean landscape. Passengers on the escalator of the Moscow metro. The priest in the church gives communion to the faithful. Baby baptism rite. Domes of churches of the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. The monk walks along the wall of the lavra. Footage from the chronicle. Kiev City. Until 1917. Monument to Prince Vladimir. Gymnasium building. High school students are walking along the street. High school students at haymaking. Early 20th century Hospital building in Pereyaslavl, receiving patients. The peasant plows the land, reaps on a mechanical header. The peasants are walking along the road in the middle of the field. Festive walks on the street of the village. A blacksmith works in a forge. World War I. Soldiers of the Russian army take the oath before the battle. The Sisters of Mercy are helping the wounded. The priest helps the soldiers carry the wounded. The doctor makes a bandage to the wounded in the carriage of an ambulance train. Civil War. Refugees are walking along the station square, traveling with soldiers on a railway platform. Without specifying the location and date of shooting. Uzbekistan. Ablution of Uzbeks by the reservoir. City of Tashkent. A surgeon with an assistant is performing the operation. City street. The Red Army riders leave the fortress gates, the Red Army men are marching (part 1: 4). PART TWO. Ice drift on the river. The priest performs the rite of unction. Chronicle footage. Until 1917. The raising and installation of the church bell. Members of the royal family are passing by, a carriage is driving off. The bishop welcomes the members of the royal family. 1911 Religious procession in Odessa. 1917 Religious procession on Red Square on Nikolin Day, among those present - Metropolitan Tikhon. 1918 Moscow. U-th All-Russian Congress of Soviets. Security checks the mandates of the delegates of the congress, among those present - YM Sverdlov. 1919 Dissection of the shrine with the relics of St. Sergius of Radonezh in the Trinity-St.Sergius Lavra. 1920 Building of Tashkent University. The laboratory assistant prepares the audience for the lecture. 1922 Famine in the Volga region: starving children and old people, distribution of soup to the hungry. The seizure of church valuables by representatives of the Soviet government in one of the churches, in the presence of the rector of the temple and the appraiser. PART THREE. Stairs and corridors of the Butyrka prison. A guard with a rifle walks along the prison wall. The door slams. Siberia. The movement of the sled convoy along the forest road. The dog barks near the hut covered with snow. ... G. Yeniseisk. One of the streets of the city. Church building. The Yenisei River. G. Turukhansk View of the city from the Yenisei River. House in snowdrifts. An elderly woman shovels snow in front of her house (3-4 hours). City street, bridge. Actor V. Zamansky reads from the sermon of V. F. Yasenetsky (synchronously). Rite of tonsure as a monk. On the table are the signs of hierarchical authority: crucifixion, panagia, mitra. Chronicle footage. 1920s Moscow. Tram and pedestrian traffic on Lubyanskaya Square. August 6, 1922 Congress of the Living Church. Participants of the congress go to the meeting, enter the door of the building. PART FOUR. G. Turukhansk. Winter landscape. Wooden one-story houses. Corridor of the building of the former Turukhansk GPU. Dogs run in the snow in front of the horse carriage. Sled movement. The Yenisei River under the ice. Plakhino hunting camp (winter shooting). The hut where V.F. Voino-Yasenetsky lived in exile. V. Zamansky is reading from the book of memoirs of Voino-Yasenetsky (synchronously). Chronicle footage. Without specifying the location and date of shooting. A banner on the wall of the building: "It is not enough to admit the harm of religion - we must fight it." Travel through the city at night in a prisoner transport vehicle called "black funnel". Switchman with a lantern at the railway paths at night. Train movement through a blizzard at night. Turukhansk region. Tungus on the hunt. Camp of the Tungus. 1930s Destruction of churches: removal of the bell, cross, destruction of the dome of the church by the Red Army, explosion of the church. The woman removes icons from the wall. Icons are thrown into the fire, a round dance is performed around the fire. Temple without domes and crosses with the image of V. I. Lenin on the wall. The city of Arkhangelsk. Port. City streets in winter. Winter birch grove. Prisoners with wheelbarrows on earthworks. Prisoners work in the logging, in the quarry. City of Tashkent. 1937 Elections to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. L.M. Kaganovich speaks at a pre-election rally. PART FIVE. Krasnoyarsk region. The village of Bolshaya Murta. Hospital building and operating room. G. Krasnoyask. The streets of the town. Divine service in the church in Nikolaevka (region of Krasnoyarsk). Footage from the chronicle. Without specifying the shooting date. Athletic parade on Red Square: athletes portray a tank, an airplane, swim in a fake pool. All-Union Congress of Surgeons. Congress delegates in the conference room. 1940s Streets of the city of Krasnoyarsk. 1942 \ Moscow \. Easter service in the Epiphany Cathedral. Metropolitan Nikolai of Krutitsky and Kolomensky blesses the parishioners. The square at the Nikitsky gate. Believers carry bundles on skulich and Easter. Anti-aircraft guns are standing. Moscow. September 9, 1943 Meeting of the Bishops' Council, among those present - members of the Holy Synod - Patriarch Sergius and Metropolitan Alexy of Leningrad. Moscow. 1944 The car drives up to the Epiphany Cathedral. The enthronement of the Metropolitan of Leningrad Alexy in the Epiphany Cathedral. 1948 Meeting on the occasion of the celebration of the Day of Autocephaly of the Russian Orthodox Church. Footage from the chronicle of the Second World War. German planes in the sky, dropping bombs. Explosions. Fumes of conflagrations. A woman with a child in the ashes. The woman is crying over the killed. Shoots a German gun. Medics and nurses provide assistance to the wounded on the battlefield. Transportation of the wounded by dog sledding, carts. Operation in a field hospital. Caring for the wounded in the ambulance train. PART SIX. Crimea. The movement of cars on the highway. The landscape of the hills. Morning landscape. Fog. G. Simferopol. The building of the military medical unit of the city. The house where Archbishop Luke lived (V.F. Voino-Yasenetsky). A sprinkler is driving along a city street. Simferopol Cathedral (night photography). Service in the cathedral. Religious procession (night photography). Priest Father Leonid (Dunaev) talks about Archbishop Luke (synchronously). Chronicle footage. \Moscow\. 1943 Patriarch Sergius at a meeting of the Council of Bishops on September 9, 1943 (part 4-5). The funeral of Patriarch Sergius in 1944. 1960s Speech by N.S. Khrushchev.

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1991