A compelling study of a controversial Ukrainian pastor whose forceful approach borders on vigilantismThis gripping documentary about Gennadiy Mokhnenko, aka Pastor Crocodile, a controversial child-welfare activist in Ukraine, has the propulsive power and arc of a drama. And in this burly man of God, with his thunderous laugh and larger than life personality, the director Steve Hoover has a confounding, complex central character who acts as the lens through which we see the track-marked underbelly of this troubled country. The pastor rolls up his sleeves and trawls through the grimmest drug-infested dives imaginable – sewers, shacks, alleys – and there …read more
Source: The Guardian
