Great, thrilling movie. Short on real Orthodox Christian monastic reality. Has little to do with real prayer or asceticism, or clairevoyent elder(ship). Like the utterly fabricated Fr. Arseny novel (fic-bioraphy) the agenda coming out of Moscow and Sretensky Monastery (Abbott Tikhon) is pure Soviet propoganda. All is well in the NEW HOLY RUSSIA INC. Trouble is it's just too pat, too prepared, and not really warm with the truth of Christ's holy Truth or Historical Martyric Orthodoxy.