Desc: Nachalo puti: Directed by Igor Akhmedov. With Evgeny Radchenko, Oleg Fomin, Mikhail Efremov, Marina Nosova. Biographical movie based on remembered incidents in the childhood of the Patriach of all Russia, Alexi II. As a boy of around 12 years of age he witnessed the start of World War 2 and the German occupation of Estonia. He served as an altar boy to his father and on occasion played Chess with a German officer. He clearly remembers a trip to Valaam Island with his father and how a mystical experience guided Alexi to follow in his fathers footsteps and become a priest.