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Russian Greek-Orthodox Archimandrite Tikhon (born 1958 in Moscow Georgi Alexandrovich Shevkunov) studied film production before entering the clergy, and when his first work as a director and narrator was released earlier this year in “The fall of an Empire - The Lesson of Byzantium” Documentary ,it created an uproar! The film deals with the Empire’s degradation and how it lost its “ability to respond to the calls of history.”
Russian Greek-Orthodox Archimandrite Tikhon (born 1958 in Moscow Georgi Alexandrovich Shevkunov) studied film production before entering the clergy, and when his first work as a director and narrator was released earlier this year in “The fall of an Empire - The Lesson of Byzantium” Documentary ,it created an uproar! The film deals with the Empire’s degradation and how it lost its “ability to respond to the calls of history.”
A Greek
version has already been released and an English version is underway. Documentaries
Due to a reference to the Emperor Constantine as The Drunkard, not a
few critics saw in the film a portrayal of the late President’s
Yeltsin’s crumbling Russia and considered the documentary an attempt to
help President Putin’s hand-picked successor and current President
Dmitri Medvedev win the election.
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