The Russian Cross

Overview

July 1941, the town of Gdov. Father Alexander, a priest, is being held in the NKVD's dungeons. He was imprisoned for preaching to the faithful about the saints who pleaded with the Savior not to abandon Russia in the ongoing war, but the Savior replied that Russia was so filled with the filth of desolation that it was no longer possible to tolerate these injustices, and that the war was a just punishment for a country that had forgotten God. Such words could not go unnoticed, and Captain Yakovlev of the State Security accused Father Alexander of aiding the advancing Germans...

Created by Grigoriy Lubomirov

Network

• NTV

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

• 

  Evgeniy Sidikhin

  Father Alexander (Pyotr Andreyevich Yermakov)

  4 eps

• 

  Dmitriy Nagiev

  Captain Yakovlev of State Security

  4 eps

• 

  Lev Durov

  Schemamonk Epiphanius

  4 eps

• 

  Dina Korzun

  Mariya

  4 eps

More like this

Rated 7.3 out of 10

Pearson

2019

Rated 7.1 out of 10

TURN: Washington's Spies

2014