Matushka (2016)

Documentary | 38 min.

Movie Info

Release Date: 17 Jan, 2018
Country Georgia
Author Manana Khidasheli
Producer Nino Chutkerashvili
Broadcaster Georgian Public Broadcaster GPB
Submitting Institution GPB

Synopsis

Competition status – nominee

“I am grateful to God for granting me this long road. The most important thing is that I had never strayed from His path” – says the hero of our film, Reverend Mother Agrippina, the 100-year-old woman whose biography encompasses Bolshevism, religious persecution, the rise of Communism, dekulakization, deportation to Siberia, Fascism, and the Holodomor famine in Ukraine. As a crippled 21-year-old, Ana Boichenko fled famine in Odessa and came to Georgia. After surviving both personal tragedies and the traumas of her era, she found peace in holy orders. Now, after a lifetime of painful memories, she continues to live in the Urbnisi Convent and still dreams of the future.