THE SIBERIAN GUIDE

SYBERYJSKI PRZEWODNIK

In the early 90s Siergiej 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.

FILM REPRESENTED BY THE KRAKOW FILM FOUNDATION
 

  • Genre: Dokumentalny
  • Country: Polska
  • Running time: 47
  • Year: 2005

Director: Jędrzej Morawiecki, Maciej Migas

Script: Maciej Migas, Jędrzej Morawiecki

DOP: Radosław Ładczuk

Music: Tadeusz Woźniak

Editing: Rafał Listopad

Production company: Studio Filmowe Kalejdoskop

About the directors:

Jędrzej Morawiecki




A journalist cooperating with weeklies Tygodnik Powszechny and Polityka, daily Gazeta Wyborcza, monthly National Geographic and also with the BBC, the Krasnojarsk Radio and the Polish Radio. He lectures at the Wrocław University. Currently he is working on a PHD paper in sociology.

Maciej Migas

Maciej Migas

Born in 1976 in Szprotawa. He is a graduate of the Department of Journalism at the Wrocław University, and a student of film directing of the PWSFTviT film school in Łódź. His short story The Sea was a part of the novel Ode to Joy (2005), awarded at the festivals in Gdynia and Konin. The Siberian Guide is his debut in the documentary cinema.

At festivals:

European Documentary and Anthropological Film Festival, Budapest, Hungary, 2007 (competition)