Филипп Чэмпион, [30.07.21 19:09]
On July 24, 2021, Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk was 55. This beautiful date is not only a food for thinking about the merits of the birthday man; it is also an opportunity to find out his existential principles.
The film Hierarch produced by the Kultura TV channel is an invitation to do it. You will learn about the history of the hierarch’s life and ministry from rare archive materials, from stories of his closest associates, from his own remembrances. The Eucharistic cup frozen to his lips, tens of kilometres walked from church to church, conflicts that could not be expected to arise, inspiration making him stop in the middle of his path between two cities and write down music, a creative crisis and a new upsurge. These are only some particular details of the events about which you will know from the documentary, which can hold your attention for a long time. And through these details the principle content of the film will be revealed: the picture of the world that Metropolitan Hilarion would like to bring to his contemporaries.