“The Filipovans and Nekrasov’s cossacks” | English subtitle

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“The Filipovans and Nekrasov’s cossacks” is a biographical and anthropo-ethnic documentary, a journey back to the roots. We join Ana Preda, the author of the documentary, in discovering her lipovan family’s history, an Old Believer Russian orthodox family, and hence the identity and history of the whole starover community from Romania.

Trying to grasp “why she is the way she is”, the author traces her family tree down to the deepest roots. The journey helps her sketch the defining elements of the ethnicity she belongs to. It starts from the life stories of her family, undergoes life’s essential moments, birth, marriage, funeral and reaches the most difficult milestone for parents, the one of carrying and passing on that legacy to their children: the mother tongue, the customs, the tradition and the religion. Achieving all of these while living in harmony with the customs, language, and traditions of their ancestors’ adoptive country.

Oppressed and persecuted in the native country, the starovers, or orthodox old believers, have a history, which spans over more than three and a half centuries. 1653 is the year which triggers the split in the Russian Orthodox Church, 650 years after the Christening of the Russian people.

Russia has always assumed a certain messianism, one of Byzantine origin. It was some sort of Byzantium after Byzantium, but within the Russian sphere, as well as the creation of a centre of power of religious essence.

Nowhere in the orthodox history, not in Greece, not in Romania, not in Bulgaria, even though these countries did not exist as they are today, but rather their peoples, have had such a mass reformation, with such cruelty. Russia is unique in this regard.

The official church and the synod at the beginning of the XVIII century has prosecuted the starovers quite harshly for the mere fact they were still practising the old rite beliefs.

The crew:
Story-teller Ana Preda DOP Cristian Glodeală, Geo Tuică sound Viorel Popescu, Nicolae Tofan music illustrator Mihaela Constantinescu GFX Alina Fekete, Dan Pecete PPS Cristian Rădulescu editors Marius Butnariuc, Dragoș Smărăndescu, Cosmin Găleată producers Diana Dumitru, Ionuț Carpatorea, Istvan Andras Demeter

Ana Preda's autobiography
After more than 20 years of TV production, mostly as a Producer, I decided to take the opportunity to tell a story about my ancestral roots. I started my TV carrier as a graphic designer, but soon I became interested in news stories. Completing my professional education at BBC School of TV Journalism in the same time with my job in a private television as a reporter, in a short period of time I managed to coordinate a whole news program as a producer. After 8 years of news, I decided to deepen the audio-visual field, switching to movie production. As Assistant Director with Media Pro Pictures, I was involved in three film projects: “Vacuums” aka ”Stealing Bess“, a musical movie directed by Luke Cresswel and Steve McNicholas, a documentary, “Scariest places on Earth“, for Fox Family Channel and “Furia”, a Romanian movie, the first feature film directed by Radu Muntean.

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