Your Cross
Твой крест
Tvoy krest (ru)
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Твой крест
Tvoy krest (ru)
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| Year | 2007 |
| Director(s) | Podivilov Stanislav |
| Studio(s) | Rassvet |
| Language(s) | Russian |
| Genre(s) | Religion Serious War & battles |
| Animation Type(s) | Digital 2D |
| Length | 00:13:00 |
| Wordiness | 4.13 |
| Animator.ru profile | Ru, En |
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Description:
After yet another Mongol raid, a despairing man begs God to give him a lighter cross to bear. A Russian Orthodox Christian fable.
The original fable that served as the inspiration can be read here (in Russian). The central idea of the animated film is submission to God's will, the need to live one's earthly life with dignity, without complaint, and without seeking a different destiny, because someone else's cross can be heavier than one's own.
The film aims to draw people's attention to their spiritual world and to discover its richness. To try to understand one's unique place in this world, and to try to understand and accept one's purpose.
The screenplay served as the basis for an eponymous 2006 32-page book with illustrations by the director (its page on the website of the Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church is here). The book was released before the film was finished.
The production of the film was, in many ways, a family affair, by a director who had abandoned animation to go into the Church before eventually finding his way back into film. An interview with him made shortly after this film's completion can be read here (in Russian).
A version of the film with hard-subtitles in Greek (by pankrestos) can be watched here, and a Greek dub can be found here ("Ο δικός σου σταυρός").
Awards (source):
2008 - Russia, Kaluga - International Orthodox Sretensky Film Festival "Vstrecha" (Meeting) - Best Animated Film
2008 - Italy, Rome - World Religious Film Festival "Religion Today" - Diploma
Diploma at the . Rome, Italy, 2008.
2008 - Russia - 8th Tsaritsyn Alexander Nevsky Orthodox Festival of Culture, Language, and Journalism - Best Animated Film
2009 - Russia - 18th Zolotoy Vityaz (Golden Knight) International Film Festival - Special Prize
2009 - Russia, Yekaterinburg - 4th International Festival "In the Family Circle" - Best Animated Film (according to the children's jury)
2009 - Russia, Kuban - Kuban Orthodox Film Festival - Prize
DISCUSSION
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This one seems to be widely liked by "the faithful", and has probably won the most awards of all the director's films. In his interview, the director said that he thought this was the first "truly Orthodox" Russian animated film, but I wouldn't say that. Excellent earlier examples include Yuletide Stories (1994) and The Nativity (1996). But it may well be the first Russian animated film made by someone who was so closely tied to the Russian Orthodox Church, having previously given up animation for many years to do icon painting and illustration. I mean, there were previous examples... famously, Pilot Studio's Yuriy Pronin left secular life behind to paint icons and restore churches mid-way through production of Exhibition in 1995, forcing studio head Aleksandr Tatarskiy to complete his film for him. Yuriy Norshteyn's son became an icon painter. But this is probably the first example of someone coming back from that to animation, and bringing everything he learned with him to inform his film.
I think that the artwork is generally quite well-done, and the CGI-parts are mixed in with the rest decently well. Also, the various demons are quite creatively drawn!
The prayer of the ascetic in the middle section of the film (which you can hear only partly) is still not translated. If anyone can find the original source, please let me know.