Film's Description

Leonid Fyodorov is an outstanding example of the search for truth, the Truth in capital letters. His sound education and his exceptional intelligence made him overcame great difficulties: the threats from tsarist authorities, the hard studies in foreign countries, the Siberian exile, the foundation of the Eastern Catholic Church in Russia, the dialogue between Orthodox and Catholics in front of the Bolshevik atheism, and later the concentration camp.

Leonid Fyodorov also led a secret life: a spiritual battle with the Evil, that Father Leonid felt as a reality, as in his personal defence in front of the anger and hatred of the prosecutors in the 1923 trials . In his sober attitude, looking at the persecution of believers, his reflection was: ‘I am convinced that if our blood is spilt, and in large quantities, this will be the best fundamentum Ecclesiae Russicae Catholicae, otherwise we will not be living, but stagnating in our dark, unenlightened ‘Soviet life’… ‘We are the fertilizer for Russia’s spiritual rebirth’.