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Flowers from the Mount of Olives
Right alongside Jerusalem, in a Russian Orthodox Convent in the Mount of Olives, in the middle of the Arab quarter, lives the 82-year-old Estonian nun Mother Ksenya.
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In this film the last living witnesses of the events from Second World War are telling their stories and thus transferring silenced victim’s voices to present times.
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