• Director(s):

    MERTIN (Wolfgang)

  • Producer(s):

    ARTE GEIE, MEDIENKONTOR Movie GMBH

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2016

  • Language(s):

    German, English, Spanish, French

  • Rights:

    TV, DVD, NON-THEATRICAL, INTERNET, VOD

Banned under the Soviet regime, Cossack identity is today undergoing a rebirth in Russia, with its ancestral songs once again heard along the banks of the Don. 

Meanwhile, Cossacks and the Othodox church work to renew their historic alliance. After a century of atheism in the in the country, Father Oleg, an archpriest aged 62, has much to do. He tirelessly travels the vast territory he administers. Two rivers steeped in history, the Volga and the Don, cross the immense steppe.

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