This film of 60 minutes is a presentation of the life of a modern Orthodox Saint who reposed in 1966, as the Russian Orthodox Archbishop of San Francisco. When his coffin was opened some 26 years later, his body was found to be incorrupt.  Follow the life of St. John from his childhood in Kharkov, Ukraine to Serbia, China, Europe and California.   The film has interviews from many persons who knew the holy hierarch personally.  In his life time St. John was already considered a man of great holiness.  Miracles were performed by him in his life and continue to this day.

This Russian produced film closed the 2006 Venice Film Festival and received the Golden Eagle Award.  Structured like a parable, "Ostrov" tells the tale of Father Anatoly, a fictional monk who for decades seeks God's forgiveness for shooting a fellow soldier at the Nazis' behest during the Second World War to save his own life.  The film is set in the 1970's in a remote northern monastery.  The film reveals speaks about monastic life, the consequences of sin and God's forgiveness.

In 1949 Stalinist Soviets began a sweep of Romanian college campuses, to imprison and transform young Romanians into a communist way of thinking.  This is the story of Pitesti Prison in Romania.  The evils and depravity of what went on is revealed, as well as the struggle of the human soul.  A good part of the documentary is composed of an interview with Father Roman Braga, a prison survivor and today, a spiritual father to Romanian nuns in America.