Credited cast: | |||
Maksim Sukhanov | ... | Metropolitan Aleksei | |
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Roza Khayrullina | ... | Taidula |
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Innokenti Dakaiarov | ... | Khan Dzhanivek |
Aleksandr Yatsenko | ... | Fedka | |
Vitaliy Khaev | ... | Prince Ivan | |
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Aleksey Yegorov | ... | Badakul |
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Fedot Lvov | ... | Timer |
Andrey Panin | ... | Khan Tinibek | |
Aleksey Shevchenkov | ... | Vasili the stoker | |
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Moge Oorzhak | ... | Berdibek |
Romuald Andrzej Klos | ... | Ambasador | |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Daulet Abdygaporov | ||
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Rinat Abushaev | ||
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Tolepbergen Baisakalov | ||
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Rinat Khairullin | ... | voevoda Djanibeka (as Rinat Khayrullin) |
It is the word "horde" that had meant, for many countries and nations, bloody raids and being under humilating contribution for centuries - a strange and scary world with its own rules and customs. To be or not to be for Rus (Ruthenia), that is the price of the one-man mission as he is departing to this world to accomplish a feat. The film tells the story of how Saint Alexius, the Metropolitan of Moscow and Wonderworker of All Russia, healed the Tatar Queen Taidula, Jani-Beg's mother, from blindness, in 1357. Written by Moscow Film Festival
a religious film. that is the point who, I suppose, explains it in a wise manner. not as manifesto against Mongols, not as a story about Russia. only as story of sacrifice and faith. sure, it is only a point of view. sure, it is a too subjective film and that is not a real surprise. because the cruelty, the week leaders, the powerful women, the story of Alexey and the moral victory are pieces of a portrait who defines way for assume the past. looking historical accuracy it is bizarre work. because the atmosphere, the tale, the mission of an hierarch are only important things. and, sure, the victory of Orthodox Church against an ambiguous evil. a film who could be useful for understand Russia out of definitions.