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SUBJECTS
Russian Ark
(Russkij kovcheg )
featuring
Sergey Dreiden, Maria Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, Mikhail Piotrovsky,
Sokoruv’s Russian Ark has been described as an oddity and a miracle—consisting as it does of one continuous, unbroken take through St. Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum, populated by 2,000 actors and extras, and guided by a French nobleman and an unseen contemporary artist (Sokurov provides the voice). Sokoruv imagined a shot “in a single breath”—and the result is indeed a breathtaking pageant revealing the splendor of Imperial Russian history and culture, including wonderful, imagined scenes with Peter and Catherine the Great and Tsars Nicholas I and II, and brief glimpses into Soviet times.
FILM DETAILS
Screenwriter
- Anatoly Nikiforov
- Alexander Sokurov
Cinematographer
- Tilman Buttner
Language
- Russian
- with English subtitles
Print Info
- Color
- DCP
- 96 mins
Source
- Kino Lorber
CINEFILES
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Russian ark (program note), Film Society of Lincoln Center, 2003
Ark de Triomphe (review), East Bay Express, Jean Oppenheimer, 2003
Russian ark (review), Reader (Chicago, Ill.), Jonathan Rosenbaum, 2003
Depicting history, and making it too (article), Los Angeles Times, Alina Tugend, 2003
Russkij kovceg (program note), Festival internazionale cinema giovani, 2003
Russki kovcheg - Russian ark (program note), Toronto International Film Festival, Dimitri Eipides, 2002
Russian ark (program note), Cannes Film Festival, 2002
Russian ark (distributor materials), Hermitage Bridge Studio, Mikhail Piotrovsky, 2002
Russian ark (review), Variety, Deborah Young, 2002
Space odysseys (review), Village Voice, J. Hoberman, 2002
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