Yazichniky

Natialia Stepanovna arrives and brings her religious views with her. Gradually able to convince those around her, she soon has the family under her influence, with only Kristina offering determined resistance. With a Moscow-based family serving as a microcosm, we are immerged in the current debate over the role of faith and religion in the modern world, as the viewer is exposed to the workings of a gradually evolving parallel existence and the ways in which these can flow over into extremism and fanaticism. A highly controversial subject in post-communist Russia, where the Orthodox Church numbers as one of the pillars of the state.

In her debut production director Lera Surkova has created a cleverly staged, multi-layered narrative with an unexpected ending. MM