TV journalist Arkady Mamontov: documentaries (list), creative successes

Holy Mount Athos. This phrase alone evokes reverent and reverent feelings in the heart of a Russian Orthodox Christian since the baptism of Kievan Rus. Getting to the Mountain and joining its blessed shrines is the cherished dream of hundreds of thousands of Russian Orthodox people for centuries. After all, Athos is the heart of both universal and Russian Orthodoxy.

It was from here that Orthodox monasticism was brought to Rus' a thousand years ago. From here, for centuries, a stream of patristic book enlightenment, asceticism and asceticism poured over the country, transforming the once barbarian region into the majestic Holy Rus'.

How did Arkady Mamontov come into the profession?

Documentary films (the list will be indicated) are the logical result of all the previous activities of a television journalist. Growing up in a family of television workers (his father was a cameraman and his mother was a director at a newsreel studio), the young man from Novosibirsk went to enroll in VGIK. Having failed, he served in the army, being drafted into the missile forces in Transbaikalia. This was the beginning of the 80s, when a boy from an intelligent family had to defend his honor with his fists. But it strengthened my character.

The second attempt to enter VGIK was again unsuccessful, and the young man took exams at Moscow State University for the Faculty of Journalism, from which he graduated with honors in 1988. Starting as a special correspondent, he visited many hot spots: Ossetia, Transnistria, Nagorno-Karabakh. Since 1994, he was attracted to cooperation by the NTV channel, sending him to prepare video reports from Ingushetia, Dagestan, and Chechnya.

With the transition to the Rossiya TV channel in 2000, a new stage of its activity began, related to the investigation into the sinking of the Kursk submarine. First, he reports live from the scene of the tragedy, and then creates the film “August,” which marked the beginning of his filmography. The project for which the films were made was the program “Special Correspondent”. One of its creators is Arkady Mamontov.

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Title: Father Herman Year of release: 2021 Genre: Documentary Duration: 52:38 Director: Ekaterina Makhova Studio in the name of St. John the Warrior

An inveterate criminal, an authority in the criminal environment... Now a monk, quietly and humbly carrying out obedience in the Minsk Cathedral. This metamorphosis perplexed not only criminals, but also investigators. General reaction: this doesn’t happen—Tsypa is “out of his mind.” But someone thought about it... and believed... And he came to faith through death when he saw the disgusting demons coming for him. “But he agreed that he was worthy of punishment, and his soul returned to his body again,” his confessor adds to the story of monk Herman. Afterwards there was Baptism, repentance, the fight against vicious habits and... against evil spirits. Even later - illness and expectation of death. Took monastic vows - and again God's mercy! Father German (Tsyporin) and people close to him talk about their lives extremely sincerely, sometimes with tears in their eyes.

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Title: Earthly Angel, Heavenly Man. Schema-Archimandrite Vitaly Year of release: 2021 Genre: Documentary Duration: 50:12 Director: Gennady Nikitin Lipetsk Metropolis

Gennady Nikitin’s film “Earthly Angel, Heavenly Man” was created with the blessing of Metropolitan Nikon of Lipetsk and Zadonsk in 2016. Schema-Archimandrite Vitaly (Sidorenko) May 5, 1928 – December 1, 1992 The son of poor peasants Alexandra and Nikolai, from early childhood he loved the Gospel and God. Already during his school years, his anti-Soviet behavior caused discontent in certain circles; he lived the wandering life of a man not of this world. The spiritual child of Schema-Archimandrites Seraphim (Romantsov), Andronik (Lukash) and Schema-Metropolitan Seraphim (Mazhuga), Father Vitaly follows the path of a novice of the Glinsk hermitage, a monk and desert dweller in the mountains of Abkhazia, a schema-monk and clergyman. Illness and persecution make the elder’s prayer extraordinary. People from all over the world still come to his grave in Tbilisi, as during his lifetime, for spiritual help and consolation.

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Title: Special project of Arkady Mamontov - Crown under the hammer Year of release: 2021 Genre: Documentary Duration: 03:19:56 Author: Arkady Mamontov SPAS TV channel

Special project of Arkady Mamontov - “Crown under the Hammer”. Leading American and Russian historians, representatives of the Orthodox Church, political scientists, and famous public figures will discuss this topic in the studio after the screening of an exclusive film investigating the circumstances of the collapse of the Russian Empire. The program will showcase unique documents from foreign archives, and for the first time, European and American historians will present an in-depth analysis of events in Russia in the first quarter of the 20th century. Who was behind the murder of the Romanov family? Who was the sponsor of the February and October revolutions? What part did American bankers take in the collapse of the Russian Empire?

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Title: Special project Split. Film by Arkady Mamontov” Year of release: 2021 Genre: Documentary Duration: 00:57:11 Author: Arkady Mamontov Director: Kirill Vashchenko Television company: VGTRK, Russia 1 HD

In Kyiv on December 15, the so-called “unification council” took place - and in fact, the State Department, Bartholomew and Poroshenko convened schismatics to proclaim a new pseudo-church. They even elected a false head of the religious structure - Epiphanius. The Russian Orthodox Church characterizes this as a church schism with the goal of destroying Orthodoxy in both Ukraine and Russia. How is the US involved in this, and why is there so much politics in this issue? Now a new crusade against Moscow has begun. The American State Department, Patriarch Bartholomew and Petro Poroshenko united to first split and then destroy Orthodoxy. The main goal is to destroy the Church, and instead create a pseudo-religious organization. And all this is being done just so that we don’t exist...

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Name: Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. Millennium Photography Year of release: 2021 Genre: Documentary Director: Lyusine Kolykhalina Directors: Vladislav Robsky, Elena Legeyda Duration: 01:03:10

The Kiev Pechersk Lavra is the first monastery in Rus', founded by the Monk Anthony after he returned from Holy Mount Athos and brought the Athos tradition of monastic life to our land. From this moment, a thousand years ago, the history of all monasticism in Rus' began. The documentary project Kiev Pechersk Lavra - the first monastery in Rus' will tell about the thousand-year history of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra, the fate of the monastery in the twentieth century, during the era of the most severe trials, and its revival after the restoration of monastic service here.

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Title: Film Where We Are by Sergei Gabakovsky Year of release: 2018 Genre: Documentary Duration: 38:56 Film author and director: Sergei Gabakovsky

The purpose of human existence and the path to it. Will the construction of a technogenic electronic society contribute to achieving this goal? Film by Sergei Gabakovsky.

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Title: Irzabekov Vasily. About foul language and swearing Year of release: 2013 Genre: Documentary Director: A. Rogozin Presenter: Vasily Irzabekov Duration: 02:39:10

“Obscene words are a prayer to demons” “By the blessing of the righteous the city is raised, but by the mouth of the wicked it is destroyed” (Proverbs 11:11). What is this, an exaggeration of the wise Solomon or the genuine and deep truth? Not a single word coming from human lips is lost in space without a trace. It lives among us and acts on our hearts, because the word contains great spiritual energy - either the energy of goodness and love, or the godless energy of evil. The city is destroyed by the lips of the wicked, because the evil energy of the unrestrained tongue penetrates the heart and poisons it. Any person who speaks obscenely invokes evil and worships it. Irzabekov Vasily Davydovich (Irzabekov Fazil Davud Ogly) is a philologist and linguist, Azerbaijani by nationality. For him, a native Baku native, Russian became his native language after graduating from the Institute of Russian Language and Literature named after M.F. Akhundova.

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Title: Warrior of the Spirit Year of release: 2015 Genre: Documentary Duration: 51:43

The documentary film “Warrior of the Spirit” was created for the 500th anniversary of the repose of St. Joseph of Volotsky. This is a film about the life and spiritual feat of the great Russian ascetic, who stood up for the defense of Orthodoxy and Russian statehood at the turn of the 15th-16th centuries. Taking part in the filming were: People's Artist of the Russian Federation Nikolai Burlyaev, World Champion in combat sambo and MMA Alexey Oleynik, actor and TV presenter Sergei Badyuk.

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Title: Film Athos. Abode of the Virgin Mary Year of release: 2016 Genre: Documentary Duration: 55:57 Director: Arkady Mamontov Studio: Russia HD TV channel

Holy Mount Athos. This phrase alone evokes reverent and reverent feelings in the heart of a Russian Orthodox Christian since the baptism of Kievan Rus. Getting to the Mountain and joining its blessed shrines is the cherished dream of hundreds of thousands of Russian Orthodox people for centuries. After all, Athos is the heart of both universal and Russian Orthodoxy. It was from here that Orthodox monasticism was brought to Rus' a thousand years ago. From here, for centuries, a stream of patristic book enlightenment, asceticism and asceticism poured over the country, transforming the once barbarian region into the majestic Holy Rus'.

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Title: Saint Spyridon. Documentary film by Arkady Mamontov Year of release: 2021 Genre: Documentary Duration: 46:42 Director: Arkady Mamontov Studio: Russia HD TV channel

Saint Spyridon of Trimifuntsky, a contemporary and friend of Nicholas the Wonderworker, is one of the most unusual saints. He is especially revered in Rus'. According to the life of the saint, during his lifetime he performed such supernatural miracles as squeezing out water and cutting fire out of bricks. Such a miracle was necessary in order to convince the pagan philosopher of the truth of the dogma of the Holy Trinity. The saint became famous for converting pagans to the Orthodox faith, saving people from drought, healing the sick, and even raising the dead, although he himself was neither a skilled orator nor a doctor. The film will tell about the history of the saint’s earthly life, about his confrontation with heretics at the Second Ecumenical Council, about how fragments of the saint’s shoes help people from illnesses and adversities. But the most important thing, of course, is the deeds of Saint Spyridon, his heavenly patronage of all believers. The son of simple parents and himself simple-minded, humble and virtuous, he was a shepherd of sheep from childhood. Having come of age, he was legally married and had children. He led a pure, godly life, imitating David in meekness, Jacob in simplicity of heart, and Abraham in love for strangers...

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Title: Valaam. Documentary film by Andrey Kondrashov Year of release: 2021 Genre: Documentary Duration: 51:26 Director: Vera Kilchevskaya

The premiere of Andrei Kondrashov’s new documentary film “Valaam” took place on the Rossiya 1 TV channel. Valaam is the most ancient monastery in the north of Rus', the very first. There are short summers, endlessly long winters, piercing winds and cold Ladoga all around. This is a special place. For special people. This is where Russia's road to God begins, the monks say. They say that Valaam is Northern Athos, and also that it is a mirror of Russia. The fate of Valaam is always the fate of the country. Balaam was dying when the Russian state collapsed. It was revived, and our state again rose from its knees. He grew handsome and flourished, and the same thing happened throughout all of Russia... Two interviews with Vladimir Putin, four seasons of filming on the Valaam archipelago, artifacts of the Valaam Monastery, filmed for the first time in Finland, and unique newsreel footage that has never been broadcast before.

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Title: Venerable Sophrony - Elder of the Holy and High Mountains Year of release: 2015 Genre: Documentary Duration: 01:26:47 Country: Russia - Ukraine - Poland

Archimandrite Sophrony (in the world Sergei Georgievich Smirnov) was born on April 8, 1828 in Moscow. He came from a priestly family: his grandfather was a priest of the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary in the village of Rudnevo, Vereisky district, Moscow province, his father, Georgy Smirnov, served in the priesthood for 37 years and ended his earthly journey in the rank of archpriest. To this day, the memory of Archimandrite Sophrony is revered by the people of God. According to established tradition, March 24, the elder’s name day, is especially celebrated by residents of the village of Nikolskoye. Numerous pilgrims, clergy and laity gather for these celebrations, memorial services are served for Elder Sophrony, and memorial tables are set in the house of Claudia Ivanovna Koklina. The veneration of Elder Sophrony as a great saint of God has not ceased since his blessed death and has spread far beyond the borders of the Nizhny Novgorod diocese. And now the people’s path to his grave and the miraculous spring in the desert he founded is not overgrown.

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Title: War crimes of the Kyiv regime film by Andrey Bardachev 18+ Year of release: 2021 Genre: Documentary Duration: 46:31 Film author and director: Andrey Bardachev

War crimes of the Kyiv regime...

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Title: The Elder's Diadem. Year of release: 2021 Genre: Documentary Duration: 51:28 Author of the film: Konstantin Gelaevich Tsertsvadze Director: nun Evfemia (Mshvenieradze) Film page

The Elder's Diadem is a full-length film about Elder Gabriel (Urgebadze). The film “The Diadem of an Elder” was filmed with the blessing of His Holiness and Beatitude Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II and with the assistance of our beloved Elder Gabriel. Elder Gabriel is a great ascetic, a saint of our time, loving everyone, and his diadem is those human souls that he, with great love in Christ, guided on the true path to the Lord Almighty. Obviously, this instruction continues to this day - through his teachings, through his invisible presence next to the mourners, during visits to his holy relics. Father Gabriel taught us to rejoice in the fact that we are Orthodox and to make people happy with true Christian love.

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Documentary films: list of the most popular

Wonderful correspondents Alexander Khabarov and Vyacheslav Grunsky began working in the TV journalist’s team, helping to increase the rating of the program. One of the author’s first works was the series “Life of a Spy” (2001), revealing the ways of British intelligence to maintain contact with their agents.

Before the release of the film “Putin, Russia and the West” (in 2012), A. Mamontov demonstrates a device similar to an ordinary stone in a Moscow park. Through him, Russian intelligence services allegedly uncovered an agent network and reached coordinators in the British Foreign Office. This statement caused a negative reaction and criticism from a number of colleagues and politicians.

The film “Putin, Russia and the West,” produced by representatives of ten countries, brought some clarity to this issue and forced some critics to apologize to the author. Jonathan Powell, who works in Tony Blair's team, indirectly confirmed the information about the spy stone.

All the author's documentaries are just as action-packed and touch on many topical topics. They are made in the genre of investigative journalism, which increases their significance. Among the issues raised:

• Terrorism (“Black Zone”, “September 1”, “Nine Days”).
• Corruption (“Golden Calf”, “Trail”, “Corruption”).
• Mayhem on the roads (“Dead Zone” in three parts).
• Spirituality (“Family”, “Sodom”, “Athos. Ascent”).

Arkady Mamontov has received a number of government awards for his work. Documentary films, the list of which will be continued in the article, are his calling card and his main life achievement.

Doc. films by Arkady Mamontov

Romancing the Stone was a major failure for the British intelligence services.

When our colleague Arkady Mamontov’s investigative film about a top-secret operation was aired, not only in London did they disavow the spy story. In Russia, including among our fellow journalists, there were many, to put it mildly, skeptics. The failure of the British intelligence services was called both staged and propaganda. Six years later, the matter seems to have been reached.

Coincidence or not, this story began almost exactly six years ago. On January 23, 2006, the news about the exposure of spies was taken so seriously in London that the British Foreign Office made its first statement at five in the morning Moscow time.

“We are concerned and surprised by these suspicions. We deny all suspicions of misconduct,” the British Foreign Office said.

All news broadcasts in the UK began with information from Russia on that January day. The reports consisted mostly of operational footage of the Russian special services: “Espionage in Detail” and “Romancing the Stone.”

There were four British embassy employees accused of espionage. Secretaries-archivists Christopher Peart and Andrew Fleming, assistant official representative of British intelligence in Russia Paul Cronton and, finally, second secretary of the embassy Mark Dow.

We followed them for almost six months. All four were spotted by FSB operatives at different times in the same capital square, reading information from a transmitting device disguised as an ordinary stone.

It worked like this. At a certain time, a man recruited by British intelligence in Russia passed by the stone. In his hands he held an ordinary personal handheld computer, which transmitted information. Later, a British intelligence officer passed by the stone and, in turn, read the information using the same pocket personal computer. The transmission lasted no more than two seconds.

“This is essentially space technology, because this stone can be thrown from the ninth floor, it can stay in water for a long period of time, it has several degrees of protection. Our experts estimate that this product is worth tens of millions of pounds. Only in laboratory conditions can this miracle technology be created,” notes Sergei Ignatchenko, head of the public relations center of the FSB of Russia.

There were several such transmitters scattered around Moscow. Some were taken by our counterintelligence officers, others were carried away by spies when they realized that the scheme had failed.

But in addition to collecting information, the spies also supervised the financing of some Russian non-governmental organizations.

Payments signed by Mark Dow: to the Moscow Helsinki Group - 23 thousand pounds, to the Eurasia Foundation for publishing newspapers - almost 6 thousand. And human rights activists, of course, are not to blame, and do not have to know that the grants are transferred to them not by a diplomat, but by an intelligence officer.

“I made a special trip and looked at the group. None of the three grants were signed by Mark Dow. But even if it was signed, what’s wrong with that? It was his job: to issue grants,” notes Lyudmila Alekseeva, member of the Russian Presidential Council for Promoting the Development of Civil Society Institutions and Human Rights, chairwoman of the Moscow Helsinki Group.

However, the story still turned out ugly. And Russian human rights activists and liberal journalists did not believe this story then. They called it a provocation by the FSB. And most of all went to our colleague journalist Arkady Mamontov, who made the first big report on the activities of English spies.

“The most striking thing here is not that this is a provocation, but a provocation sewn with white thread, a provocation showing that Mr. Patrushev’s subordinates are not able to not only catch terrorists, they are not able to imitate it so that someone will believe, except for Arkady Mamontov with his immortal television epic about the English stone,” wrote Yulia Latynina.

“My complaints about TV in the political sense boil down to just these points: the creation by political television of frankly false propaganda products like the English running spy stones,” explained Oleg Kozyrev.

“We organized actions based on Mamontov’s lies. For example, regarding spy stones, which all media reported on,” wrote Roman Dobrokhotov.

“As a rule, brainwashing goes in favor of the president, United Russia and the government. TV personality Mamontov with his film about the spy stone has become a symbol of Putin’s propaganda!” – General Secretary of the Union of Journalists Igor Yakovenko drew the line.

These are just the most decent quotes. Today we tried to contact some of the authors. Lyudmila Alekseeva refused to comment on the situation. And Yulia Latynina, as they explained to us, is abroad, and there is no contact with her. Arkady Mamontov himself says: “I knew all six years that I was right.”

“I remember how everyone showered me: that they would not give me a hand, that I was an FSB agent, that I was throwing mud at honest and noble people who are fighting for the rights of Russian citizens. And, you know, I had many interviews over these 6 years, meetings with people, in different ways, and they kept asking me about this stone. Everyone was interested in this. And fellow journalists kept asking about the stone. I always said that I’m right, you’ll see, everything will be the same as it was when we shot this film, this program,” said the author of the documentary “Spies”, special correspondent Arkady Mamontov.

In general, the confrontation between British and Russian (or Soviet) intelligence has always been much more fierce than, for example, even the confrontation between the KGB and the CIA.

In April 1956, British saboteur Lionell Crabbe even tried to blow up the flagship cruiser Ordzhonikidze, on board which was Secretary General Nikita Khrushchev, who arrived in England for the coronation of the queen. The saboteur was destroyed by Soviet combat swimmers.

The British recruited high-ranking officers of our military intelligence. An example of this is the case of Penkovsky, a senior GRU officer, and agents of the USSR KGB, the same Kim Philby, headed the Russian departments of MI6. In the 1990s, of course, the Russian intelligence services lost some influence. And, apparently, the British did not understand that everything changed in the 2000s. This probably explains the fact that one man, Mark Dow, both distributed grants and collected information about rocket technology. Although, of course, this is a gross mistake by the intelligence officer.

And, of course, the story of the spy stone can be considered the most serious failure of the British intelligence services in the last 20 years. In fact, this failure has now been officially confirmed.

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About the problems of children and youth

One of the first problems that Arkady Mamontov devotes several years to studying is childhood. Having created his own studio, from 2001 to 2011 he filmed the “Children” series of programs, consisting of 8 parts. A journalist sees his duty as protecting society from what interferes with life. Among the issues he raised:

• The irreversible process of family disintegration.
• Punitive measures of the state instead of helping families in crisis.
• Corruption in the transfer of children for adoption abroad.
• Pedophilia.
• Child homelessness.

The films had a great resonance, after which the state introduced a ban on the distribution of child pornography on the Internet, and revised legislation on adoption issues.

The future of the country is the youth. The father of two children, Arkady Mamontov, cannot ignore the problem of drug addiction. Documentary films, the list of which gives an idea of ​​the approach to this issue from different angles, testifies to the civic position of the author:

• "Check".
• "Dose".
• "Dope."
• "Crocodile".
• "Datura grass."
• "Spice is an epidemic."
• "Traffic".

The stubborn statistics that one in five teenagers tries drugs makes him loudly declare the need to resist global evil. After one of the films, the government finally decided to ban the sale of dubious mixtures that flooded the shelves.

Films about Ukraine

In recent years, the attention of the country's residents has been focused on Ukraine. A whole series of programs and documentaries are dedicated to events in the neighboring republic: “Maidan”, “Oligarch”, “South-East”, “Island of Crimea”, “Bandera”. On the anniversary of the tragic events in Odessa (05/2/2015), “Burn” was released - a film about the mass death of people near the House of Trade Unions. The official investigation did not answer the main question that worries people: who is to blame for this tragedy? In a fit of emotion, hatred arises towards the “Euromaidanists” who show cruelty and inhumanity towards their victims. They are perceived as the main culprits.

But A. Mamontov’s investigative film reveals in detail the mechanism launched by the Kyiv junta, which managed to set fascist thugs against supporters of federalization. The brutal crowd is a consequence of the state’s long-term policy of instilling in people rejection of other people’s views. The film also brings some optimism. These are shots where an old man tries alone to stop the outrage and where the father of the deceased recognizes his son’s right to defend his ideals.

Each viewer of A. Mamontov's films can make their choice on any issue raised by the author.