Secret meaning of one of the most famous Biblical betrayals can not solve here for 2,000 years. Film provocation by Andrey Bogatyrev "Judas" based on the acclaimed novel by Leonid Andreyev - is the flip side of the story of Judas Iscariot, the apostle rogue, and search for an answer to the question: why in fact Judas betrayed Christ?
The young Suzanne Simonin is forced by her parents to become a nun. She learns that as an illegitimate child she is supposed to atone for her mother’s sin. Her abbess treats her nicely but when she dies Suzanne considers breaking her vows.
A tragic love affair between Victoria and Johannes. She's a daughter of a rich estate owner and he's the son of the poor miller. Despite the deep love between them, her father makes Victoria ditch Johannes for the richer Otto.
A romantic drama set in Germany just before WWI and centered on a married woman who falls in love with her husband's protégé. Separated first by duties and then by the war, they pledge their devotion to one another.
Filmed in 1929 film "Bread" have been remaining unknown, banned and never released on cinema screens for dozens of years. Only in the late 1970's a Russian film critic Naum Kleiman remembered about it for the first time. Rediscovered and renovated in 2012 by the Alexander Dovzhenko National Center (Kiev), a film after a long slumber was featured in the Ukraine in 2013.
