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Flowers from the Mount of Olives
Flowers from the Mount of Olives
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FLOWERS FROM THE MOUNT OF OLIVES

Õlimäe õied

Directed by Heilika Pikkov, Astrīda Konstante
Estonia, 2013
Documentary

Synopsis

Right beside the city of Jerusalem, in a Russian Orthodox Convent on the Mount of Olives, lives an 82-year-old Estonian nun, Mother Ksenya. Although inside these walls, the clock is never set and life still follows the Julius calendar, the twenty years that she has spent there have passed quickly.

Synopsis

Right beside the city of Jerusalem, in a Russian Orthodox Convent on the Mount of Olives, lives an 82-year-old Estonian nun, Mother Ksenya. Although inside these walls, the clock is never set and life still follows the Julius calendar, the twenty years that she has spent there have passed quickly.