Films by Edgars Makens

Germany 2011, 52 min
by Marc Brummund

350 years ago, the reformation of the Russian Orthodox Church turned those who did not want to follow the new religious currents into outlaws. The 'Old Believers' officially lost all civil rights and suffered persecution: their villages burned, many were tortured and killed, some escaped. A few settled in small villages along the shore of Lake Peipus, from where they could even see their homeland. There they kept the traditions, began fishing and growing vegetables and were forgotten by time and