To the 200th anniversary of the birth of F.M. Dostoevsky TV channel “Culture” will show the new documentary series of Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk “The Gospel of Dostoevsky.
“Dostoevsky had a dream,” says the author of the films. “It is expressed in one of his notebooks from the mid-1870s:“ I believe in the complete kingdom of Christ. How it will be done is difficult to predict, but it will be. I believe that this kingdom will be accomplished … And there will be a universal kingdom of thought and light, and we will have it in Russia, maybe sooner than anywhere else. ”Dostoevsky was not destined to see this dream come true. eyes, testified, rather, of the opposite: of the departure from Christ of a significant part of the Russian people, of their enthusiasm for nihilistic and socialist ideas. As a true prophet, he warned and sounded the alarm. “
The texts of the famous Russian writer in the film are read by Yevgeny Mironov, and the memoirs of the writer’s wife are voiced by Chulpan Khamatova “, according to the website of the Moscow Patriarchate. , Geneva, Staraya Russa, Optina Pustyn.
The first film is called Crime and Punishment. It is about the writer’s childhood and adolescence, about his years of study, about his passion for socialist ideas, for which Dostoevsky ended up in hard labor. In the Tobolsk prison he was presented with the Gospel. “Dostoevsky did not part with this book either in hard labor or in subsequent years,” the voice-over sounds. “It was not just his handbook, it was the book of his entire life. in his work and life “.
How Dostoevsky tries to get closer to understanding the image of Christ through the image of Prince Myshkin is shown in the second film, which is dedicated to the novel “The Idiot”.
The third series is about the novel “Demons”. The plot of the novel is revealed through the processes that took place in Russian society during Dostoevsky’s time. Particular attention is paid to the image of the hermit Tikhon, whose prototype was St. Tikhon of Zadonsk.
In the center of the fourth film, which is called “The Brothers Karamazov,” is the Monk Ambrose of Optina, who became the prototype of Elder Zosima.
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