The Island
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Pavel Lounguine
Petr Mamonov
Dmitri Dyuzhev
Viktor Sukhorukov
Yuri Kuznetsov
Nina Usatova
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
A man destroyed by guilt and driven to the most extreme spiritual exhaustion sets out on his eternal quest for redemption. In 1942, a hysterical Russian soldier is forced by the Nazis to shoot his Captain before he himself is left for dead. The soldier survives, however, when he is rescued by monks. Thirty-four years later he is a notorious holy man and healer going by the name of Father Anatoly. He has spent the intervening years on the monks' tiny outpost, shoveling coal on his island as he did in the war, doomed to this Sisyphean task forever. Desperate and suffering people come from all around to seek him out; not only for blessings and guidance but also for his mystical powers to see the future and heal the sick. But Anatoly is haunted by his sin. Scarred by the murder he committed, the damaged, weathered old man is in a state of constant prayer, begging God for forgiveness while punishing his aged body with demanding physical labour. Then one day a cosmopolitan Admiral and his deranged daughter arrive from afar, and everything Anatoly thought that he understood about faith is torn asunder.
Director
Pavel Lounguine
Cast
Petr Mamonov
Dmitri Dyuzhev
Viktor Sukhorukov
Yuri Kuznetsov
Nina Usatova
Victoria Issakova
Yana Esipovich
Olga Demidova
Timofei Tribuntzev
Aleksei Zelenski
Crew
Stefan Albine
Albina Antipenko
Ekaterina Dyminskaya
Igor Kotsarev
Vladimir Litrovnik
Pavel Lounguine
Vladimir Martynov
Sergey Shumakov
Dmitry Sobolev
Alexander Tolkachev
Olga Vasilyeva
Andrei Zhegalov
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Exclusive Release in United States October 26, 2007
Released in United States on Video March 25, 2008
Released in United States 2006
Released in United States 2007
Released in United States January 2007
Shown at London Film Festival (Cinema Europa) October 18-November 2, 2006.
Shown at Venice International Film Festival (Out of Competition) August 30-September 9, 2006.
Shown at San Francisco International Film Festival (World Cinema) April 26-May 10, 2007.
Shown at Santa Barbara International Film Festival (World Cinema) January 25-February 4, 2007.
Exclusive Release in United States October 26, 2007 (NY)
Released in United States on Video March 25, 2008
Released in United States 2006 (Shown at Venice International Film Festival (Out of Competition) August 30-September 9, 2006.)
Released in United States 2007 (Shown at San Francisco International Film Festival (World Cinema) April 26-May 10, 2007.)
Released in United States January 2007 (Shown at Sundance Film Festival (World Cinema Dramatic Competition) January 18-28, 2007.)
Released in United States 2006 (Shown at London Film Festival (Cinema Europa) October 18-November 2, 2006.)
Released in United States 2007 (Shown at Santa Barbara International Film Festival (World Cinema) January 25-February 4, 2007.)
