This film is about illegitimate son's long journey to success.
Vladimir was the first one kill his brothers (was the first one to do so in known Russian history) and simultaneously marry multiple women while having harem full of virgins. This was before, during and after his new-found Christian faith. Was there something good in him? Yeah. He "loved his mother" who was a kind of slave to his grandmother Olga.
Thanks to so-called "peacefull conversion to Christianity" it took Vladimir Lenin just a minute to say "f@ck it" 1000 years after the events - and so-called religious Russia ditched it without much regret. Good job, both Vladimirs! Another reason for me to be ashamed of my compatriots - they care more about Vladimir's myth as a saint than about the lesson Russians should've learned from it. You cannot force love in any translation of this word from Greek: love for a woman (eros), brother (philia), mother (storge) or God (agape). Vladimir only loved his mother (according to his own words in the beginning, not his actions).
Modern Russian domestic vikings in the 90s have killed and robbed their own people to become "princes", just like Vladimir did. And now they're sponsoring Russian Orthodox Church because of her all-forgiving "you're OK, but give us money" motto. Funny that history repeats itself this way.
This movie is so bad it's actually good.
Vladimir was the first one kill his brothers (was the first one to do so in known Russian history) and simultaneously marry multiple women while having harem full of virgins. This was before, during and after his new-found Christian faith. Was there something good in him? Yeah. He "loved his mother" who was a kind of slave to his grandmother Olga.
Thanks to so-called "peacefull conversion to Christianity" it took Vladimir Lenin just a minute to say "f@ck it" 1000 years after the events - and so-called religious Russia ditched it without much regret. Good job, both Vladimirs! Another reason for me to be ashamed of my compatriots - they care more about Vladimir's myth as a saint than about the lesson Russians should've learned from it. You cannot force love in any translation of this word from Greek: love for a woman (eros), brother (philia), mother (storge) or God (agape). Vladimir only loved his mother (according to his own words in the beginning, not his actions).
Modern Russian domestic vikings in the 90s have killed and robbed their own people to become "princes", just like Vladimir did. And now they're sponsoring Russian Orthodox Church because of her all-forgiving "you're OK, but give us money" motto. Funny that history repeats itself this way.
This movie is so bad it's actually good.