The Island (Russian movie with English subtitles)

“The Island“ is a 2006 Russian biographical film about a 20th century Eastern Orthodox monk. Pyotr Mamonov, who plays the lead character, formerly a rock musician in the USSR, converted to Eastern Orthodoxy in the 1990s and lives now in an isolated village. Film director Pavel Lungin said about him that “to a large extent, he played himself.“ Mamonov was first very hesitant to play in the film, but then was urged by his confessor to play the character.