The First Dean
“The First Dean”
1995•25m•Released
DocumentaryHistory
The Church of the Resurrection of Christ located in the Moscow district Sokolniki is one of the most remarkable churches in Moscow. Built a few years before the revolution, it has a history that reflects the fate of the Russian Orthodox Church in the 20th century. Its walls remember the First World War and two revolutions, the confiscation of church treasures and the restoration of the patriarchate. The film features the builder and first dean of the church of Resurrection, father Johann Kedrov who was persecuted and exiled under the Soviet regime. The parishioners of the church will always remember this man.
Director
Nikolay Milovidov
Writer
Michael Vostryshev
Languages
English, Spanish, German
Studio
Voice of Russia
Cast
Patriarch Alexiy II
Self
Recommended
6.3
Putin's Witnesses
2018
7.4
Red Army
2015
7.4
Prophet's Prey
2015
7.1
Visions of Light
1992
7.3
Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God
2012
7.7
Beyond Utopia
2023
6.4
Louis Theroux: Twilight of the Porn Stars
2012
6.4
Fuck
2006
7.2
Seven Up!
1964
7.5
The War on Democracy
2007
6.8
The War Room
1993
6.1
Naqoyqatsi
2002
7.8
The Godfather Family: A Look Inside
1990
6.9
The Matrix Recalibrated
2004
7.1
The Class of ‘92
2013
6.4
Ex Libris: The New York Public Library
2017
7.7
Nazi Concentration Camps
1945
7.7
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
2000
7.5
A Plastic Ocean
2016
7.4
The Soviet Story
2008
Similar Movies
7
Earthbound, USA
2023
7.4
Chuy, The Wolf Man
2015
7.6
I Am Martin Parr
2024
6.7
The Other Boleyn Girl
2008
10
TETHERS
2023
Polvere in Sala
2023
Il Centro per i Giovani - volti, racconti ed esperienze sotto la mascherina
2021
9.5
A President, Europe and War
2022
Venerdì Santo - Bronte
2021
Fearlessli
2025
7.7
P!nk: All I Know So Far
2021
4.8
Uncensored Science: Bill Nye Debates Ken Ham
2014
8
Walt Disney's 'The Jungle Book': The Making of a Musical Masterpiece
1997
6.4
Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust
2024
7
The Dionne Quintuplets
1978
8
Serafina
2022
8
Shirley MacLaine, comme un torrent
2026
6.5
Le cinéma de Terry Gilliam - L’imagination au pouvoir
2026
7.5
James Dean: Rebel Generation
2025
8
Collisions, Life and Death from Outer Space
2024