THE HOLY ARCHIPELAGO
From Infinity to Eternity
The award-winning film by Sergey Debizhev.
Now playing in theaters
ABOUT THE FILM
“The Holy Archipelago” is the large scale film narration about the life of Solovki cloister. This land has been marked with spiritual, historical and cultural events which left a deep trace in the history and the memory of people. In this film there are regarded profound purports of existence, faith, hope and love – the questions which are so essential for every person.
What is spiritual life of a man?
What is religious tradition and
how is it reflected in contemporary world?
How does faith affect the life of people?
Located on a far edge of Russia, this archipelago as fate willed has become one of the most powerful symbols of Russian spirit.
AWARDS
In 5 months, the film received recognition from film experts and collected 26 international and Russian awards, including:
ABOUT THE FILM
“The Holy Archipelago” is the large scale film narration about the life of Solovki cloister. This land has been marked with spiritual, historical and cultural events which left a deep trace in the history and the memory of people. In this film there are regarded profound purports of existence, faith, hope and love – the questions which are so essential for every person. What is spiritual life of a man?
What is religious tradition and how is it reflected in contemporary world? How does faith affect the life of people? Located on a far edge of Russia, this archipelago as fate willed has become one of the most powerful symbols of Russian spirit.
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REVIEWS
Sergei Debizhev
Film's creator
"The avalanche of interest in our film is quite surprising as well as the full cinema houses. All what is happening I call “the miracle of “The Holy Archipelago”. It is a pleasure to see that people yearn for serious cinema and profound values. With our film we tried to set a high standard for the future Russian documentary films both in technical quality and in content filling".


SERGEI DEBIZHEV,

film's creator

"The avalanche of interest in our film is quite surprising as well as the full cinema houses. All what is happening I call “the miracle of “The Holy Archipelago”. It is a pleasure to see that people yearn for serious cinema and profound values. With our film we tried to set a high standard for the future Russian documentary films both in technical quality and in content filling".


The music for the film was written by a very famous Russian rock musician and composer Vyatcheslav Butusov. This is his first experience of composing music to a film.



“In this case I made music to a specially written script, and which is more, to already filmed shots. The music accompanies the picture almost all the time, so I decided to make three music layers slightly different from each other in mood. However, I followed academic tradition, spiritual music and ancient canonic songs, Vyatcheslav Butusov said, - it is surely a very precious experience for me, first of all because the topic of the film is of immense importance for me. I just adore monks and cloisters, and it was all very interesting for me.”

Vyatcheslav Butusov about the film
The music for the film was written by a very famous Russian rock musician and composer Vyatcheslav Butusov.


Meet the Filmmakers
the project team tells about its creation and screenings
Alexei Nemov, the director of photography
It took some time for the conventual community to get used to me and start trusting me. It is only then that I managed to imprint those rare shots which you will see in the film.”
Natalie Debizhev, the film producer
however, it is essential that our crew is a bunch of like-minded people who are keener on the values rather than on timetables. We are thankful to all of those people who helped and supported.”


Maya Manerova, distribution in Russia
– many people asked when it would be possible to watch this film at the cinemas. It is not surprising, since the film touches upon spiritual aspects which are so essential for everyone in our country.”


Timing
98 minutes
Genre
Documentary
Country
Russia
The year of production
2022
Producers
Natalie Debizhev, Michael Skigin, Vitaly Baranov

With support of
The Ministry of culture of Russia
Film company "Two captains"
hello@2kapitana.ru
Made on
Tilda