The New Saint is a film about Yevgeny Rodionov, an ordinary young Russian boy who got beheaded in the first Chechen war after being taken prisoner and refusing to convert to Islam. He was proclaimed a martyr and many Russians found in Yevgeny their own unofficial saint.
The life of Yevgeny’s mother underwent a radical change when her child ‘became’ a saint. By campaigning for his canonisation she keeps the memory of her son alive. The success of her mission is illustrated by the portrayal...
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Wybrane nagrody i festiwale/Selected festivals and awards: 2010 – MFF Amsterdam/IDFA.