Film Recommendation: Ostrov (2006)
I've been meaning to recommend you this movie for a while now, but kept forgetting. And then, what do you know, there's a post about Christian movies. Even more, some people seem to have seen and liked it.
So all I do now is to warmly recommend it to all of you, my dears.
It is a must, IMO, for any Orthodox (please, please, please get your hands on it and watch it). American Orthodox may need it to get acquainted with the concrete way things go on here in the East.
But it is a great movie for any Christian! And then it is a good insight for anybody interested in the Orthodox spirit.
Just ignore the synopsis on IMDb or any other summaries. The film is Russian, we're in WWII, when something 'interesting' happens, then we're some 30 years later in a Russian monastery where the whole movie goes on... But this is not a documentary about life in a monastery, far from it...
Please go watch it...
Posted Nov 2, 2010, 12:56 PM UTC
Awesome movie. I just got to see it a few weeks ago.
I'm going to use it to help explain to my old church friends why I'm leaving for Orthodoxy by hopefully showing them some of the spirit of the Orthodox faith.