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In the suffered history of the relationship between the Soviet Union and the Vatican, there was a page that so far had not been turned. It is the story of the Russicum college, created in Rome in 1929. It had the task of preparing Catholic priests to be sent to the Soviet Union in order to reconstitute the ecclesiastic hierarchy destroyed by the religious persecutions. On the basis of the documents found in the KGB archives, this is the incredible odyssey of a group of priests who arrived in the Soviet Union during the Second World War: they were arrested by the authorities and either shot down on site or they were deported to the Gulags. This documentary explores a forgotten page of the tormented story of the Cold War.

Italy - 2004 - 59 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour

Director Amedeo Ricucci, Maurizio Carta Script Amedeo Ricucci Camera Maurizio Carta Sound Giuseppe Vitale Editing Lorenzo K. Stanzani Music Alessandro Esseno

Production RAI Educational, Via Ettore Romagnoli, 30, 00137 Rome, Italie Tél : +39 06 3686 8173 Fax : +39 06 8689 9046 E-mail : p.corsini@rai.it

Sales RAI Educational, Via Ettore Romagnoli, 30, 00137 Rome, Italie Tél : +39 06 8689 1016 Fax : +39 06 8689 9053 E-mail : p.tinari@rai.it