A deeply moving presentation of the Orthodox hymn "Vechnaya Pamyat" (Eternal Memory) from the Orthodox Service: Requiem for the Dead.

I feel like a living dead person. Just like Nicky. At 37 years old, now i finaly decided to watch this movie. I have no idea why i didnt see it before. After a serious traumatic event when i took medication to treat bipolar 2 disorder i reacted badly and nearly lost my life.if it weren't for my parents i would have died that night in October of 2018. You don't have to go to war to become dead inside.

Ufffffffffffffff haven't words for this song.............

Sung in orthodox churches. Incredible. Thank you from the son of proud Poles

Thank you for upload. This is the only place in youtube to hear this wonderful music. Music from the deer hunt, I love!

Wonderful, beautiful and haunting Russian Orthodox chant!

Just come home...

Beautiful

wonderful

Poor Nicky

Nick. His name was Nick.

The ethnic group portrayed in this film is not Russian, but Carpatho-Rusyn, cousins to the Russians, Ukrainians and Byelorussians. Large numbers of them arrived throughout the northeastern and midwestern USA, and in the industrial areas of West Virginia from the Carpathian mountains of what was then Austria-Hungary; eastern Slovakia, eastern Hungary and southwestern Ukraine now. They were all Greek Catholics, that is, Byzantine Catholics. The church shown in the film is St. Theodosius Russian Orthodox Cathedral in Cleveland, an artifact of religious persecution. As Rusyn immigrants communities grew, they sacrificed themselves by working labour intensive, blue collar jobs to feed their families. Not only that, but these poor but hardworking immigrants built churches and brought priests and their families over from their homeland. Although they were in communion with the Pope of Rome, their liturgical traditions are those of Orthodoxy, and the majority of their parish priests were married men. The so-called Irish Bishops, Latin Rite prelates led by the first Archbishop of Minneapolis, John Ireland, didn't consider the Rusyn Greek Catholic Church to be fully Catholic, and they objected to married clergy lest the arrangement stir up envy amongst the celibate Latin Rite clergy. The 'Irish Bishops' lobbied the Vatican for a moratorium on married clergy on the territory of the USA, and with the Rusyn bishop 4,000 miles away in the old country, they were successful. The ban forbade the ordination of married men, but it also forbade those married priests already in the country, with few exceptions, to function as priests. This suppression of the Rusyn Church coincided with an attempt by the Latin bishops to make a grab for the deeds to the churches built by the blood and sweat of these people who arrived in America with nothing in their pockets. This prompted the first mass-conversion of the Rusyn immigrants to Orthodoxy. Entire parishes, clergy and faithful, bricks and onion domes, were chrismated into the American wing of the Russian Orthodox Church. Although they kept their married priests, this conversion was not without cost. They didn't merely have new bishops to guide them, they had to adopt Russian liturgical distinctives at the expense of their own. Their common liiturgical language, Church Slavonic, would have to be pronounced in strange ways, their melodies and the style with which they would be intoned would be new to them, even the style and colours of the vestments would be different. The Russian Orthodox cathedrals in Cleveland and Minneapolis grew from what had been humble Rusyn Greek Catholic parishes. Russian Orthodoxy expanded its presence in the northeastern and midwestern states, not by Russian immigrants, but by Rusyn immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and Archbishop Ireland would be called, with heavy irony, the Father of Russian Orthodoxy in America. Sometime later, in the 1930s, another group of Rusyn Greek Catholics would convert to Orthodoxy, but they would not follow their friends and relatives into the Russian Church. This group, led by Fr Orestes Chornok of Perth Amboy, NJ, petitioned the Ecumenical Patriarch, the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Constantinople, to be received into Orthodoxy, this time with their own distinctive traditions entact. The Ecumenical Patriarch obliged, erecting what is now called the American Carpatho-Russian Orthodox Diocese (ACROD) and consecrating Fr Chornok as its first bishop. Parishes of the ACROD can be found throughout the Rust Belt, and in the warmer parts of the country where northern retirees commonly settle. Their cathedral, Christ Our Saviour, can be found in Johnstown, PA. Many, perhaps most Rusyns remained in communion with Rome. They were eventually granted their own bishop whose see was based in Pittsburgh, with another eparchy (diocese) being erected in Passaic, and the original eparchy becoming a metropolitan archeparchy (archdiocese) in 1960. The Eparchies of Parma (Cleveland) and Van Nuys (later moved to Phoenix) would be added soon after. In elevating Pittsburgh's Bishop to a Metropolitan Archbishop, he became the highest ranking hierarch of the entire Rusyn Byzantine Catholic Church. Restrictions on married clergy in the USA would be relaxed in the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council in the mid-1960s, with further concessions being made during the pontificates of John Paul II and Francis. Married Rusyn Byzantine Catholic priests are not so rare as they once were.

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What is the name of the other choral piece used earlier in the movie? I used to have a recording of it and cannot find it again. The Deer Hunter soundtrack no longer contains it.

Can I find it in Apple Music ?

This is not the version from the movie. Why is that so hard to find?