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Power and Grace. Is the Human Being an Extension of God´s Arm?
Pop, Rodica
Pop, Rodica
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"Ivan the Terrible, Tsar between 1547 and 1584, was one of the cruellest rulers in the history of Russia. In 2009, Pavel Lunghin directed the film "The Tsar", in which Pyotr Mamonov successfully interprets this character whose name is full of meanings. The scene most representative for the movie and which seems to justify the essence of the tsar’s politics is the one where Ivan visits a prison to see several men convicted of treason. The metropolitan bishop Phillip the II nd of Moscow who accompanied him asked the tsar to show mercy to those criminals and set them free, thus letting God punish them instead. Ivan the Terrible's answer is hallucinating: „God, you say?! God is merciful! But who will be the one to accomplish deeds of blood and sweat? Who will claim revenge for Russia’s having been betrayed? If there is no one else up to this task, then I shall do it!”."
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2016
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