SIBERIAN GUIDE
(SYBERYJSKI PRZEWODNIK)



2005, 47 min., Poland
DIRECTION:
Maciej Migas, Jedrzej Morawiecki
SCRIPT:
Maciej Migas, Jedrzej Morawiecki
CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Radoslaw Radczuk
MUSIC:
Tadeusz Wozniak
PRODUCER:
Piotr Sliwinski
PRODUCTION:
Kalejdoskop Film Studio

In the early 90s Siergey Torov, a traffic policeman, was on a trolley bus and, as he claims, experienced a revelation. He understood that he was yet another embodiment of Christ. He adopted the name of Vissarion. Together with his followers in Siberian taiga he built the City of Sun which is to give rise to a new civilization. The film's protagonist, Igor Novikov, is one of the five thousand followers of Vissarion and his disciple.

Maciej Migas

Born in 1976 in Szprotawa. Graduate of the Department of Journalism at the Wroclaw University, and a student of film directing at the National Lodz Film School. His short story was a part of the novel Ode to Joy (Oda do radosci, 2005). The Siberian Guide, his debut documentary film, was awarded by the President of the Polish Filmmakers Association at the Cracow FF '06.

Jedrzej Morawiecki

A journalist. Works with "Tygodnik Powszechny", "Polityka", "Gazeta Wyborcza", National Geographic, the BBC, the Krasnojarsk Radio and the Polish Radio. He lectures at the Wroclaw University. Currently he is working on his PH.D. paper in sociology (a monograph of Vissarion).

Saturday, November 18, 2006 at 8:45 pm. (Gallery Theatre)