A Long Weekend with The Son of God (2010)

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UK

Television Documentary

Writer/Director/Cinematographer: George Carey

Composer: Arban, Steven Severin

George Carey travels to Russia to meet with Soviet-era police officer turned artist turned messiah Jesus Vissarion (formerly Sergei Torop), who claims to be the son of God, and who has managed to accrue several thousand followers, many of whom live in a self-built and self-run community deep in the Siberian wilderness, in this fascinating and thoroughly compelling portrait of a seemingly harmless community, which feels more like an idealistic hippy commune than a religious cult. Iain.Stott