A film about a native of the Tula region will be shown at a festival in Romania
A film about a native of the Tula region, the first abbess of the Seraphimo-Diveevo monastery Maria (Ushakova), will be shown at the international film festival Quo Vadis in Romania
A film about a native of the Tula region, the first abbess of the Seraphimo-Diveevo monastery Maria (Ushakova), will be shown at the international film festival Quo Vadis in Romania. Screenings of two Russian paintings of Orthodox themes will be held from 10 to 14 November 2026 in the city of Iasi, shared with “MK in Tula” the authors of the film.
The audience will be presented with the films “Diveevsky New Martyrs” and “Ushakovs glorify Russia”. Their author and director was a member of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia Svetlana Tandit.
The festival Quo Vadis, where the film about the tula will come, is dedicated to cinema about faith, spirituality and Christian moral values. Its organizers strive to acquaint viewers with such works and create a space for cultural dialogue.
The film “Diveevo New Martyrs”, which premiered on the Spas TV channel on December 27, 2019, tells about the fate of nuns and other residents of the Seraphim-Diveevo monastery during the years of persecution against the church. In the center of the story are the tragic events after the closure of the monastery in the XX century, as well as the stories of the Monk Martyrs Marfa and Pelagia Testovs, the Monk Confessor Matrona Vlasova and the Puzin Martyrs, who were shot in 1918.
The second work (“Ushakovs glorify Russia”) is devoted to the history and spiritual heritage of a certain kind. The film tells about Admiral Fedor Ushakov, righteous Theodor of Sanaksar and the first abbess of the Seraphim-Diveevsk monastery of Mary (Ushakova). The authors use documentary materials and real biographies to reveal themes of faith, service to the Fatherland and preservation of historical memory.
The display of Russian paintings in Yassy will acquaint foreign audiences with the history of Orthodox culture and the fate of people who left a noticeable mark in church history.
Earlier, MK in Tula reported that the film about Mother Maria (Ushakova) was also included in the program of the international film festival Radonezh. In 2026, his screenings are scheduled from 10 to 16 November in the Moscow cinemas of the Moschino network.
The event promises to be a major event, because over the three decades of its existence, the festival has already presented more than five thousand works by filmmakers from Russia and other countries.
But that's not all! As MK in Tula wrote on its pages, the Tula region was already becoming a film set for larger film projects.
So, in the Romantsevo mountains in Konduky Uzlovsky district, episodes of Russian fantasy “Sleeping Beauty” were filmed. Unusual relief, turquoise lakes and rock formations served as scenery for the fairy-tale world of the picture.
