Steve Hoover’s portrait of Gennadiy Mokhnenko hints at a darker side to the pastor who runs a children’s orphanage in UkraineCharismatic and somewhat sinisterly convinced of his own inviolate righteousness, Pastor Gennadiy Mokhnenko runs the rehab centre-cum-orphanage Pilgrim in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol. Working outside what little law the town has in place, Mokhnenko scoops up drug-addicted and abused kids and gives them shelter, sometimes even legally adopting them as own. This highly stylised documentary by Steve Hoover, years in the making, clearly wants viewers to accept him as a saint of sorts, hence the title, and there’s no …read more
Source: The Guardian
