Year: 2002
Genre:
Drama, Fantasy, History, Mystery
Category: Movie
IMDB Rating: 7,4 (DINO Rating: 5,4)
Country: Russia, Germany, Japan, Canada, Finland, Denmark
Language:
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Writer: Boris Khaimsky, Anatoli Nikiforov, Svetlana Proskurina, Aleksandr Sokurov
Composer: Sergei Yevtushenko
Producer: Oliver Damian, Andrey Deryabin, Viktor Gaylyunas, John Hamilton, Larissa Maevokaya, Jens Meurer, Vladimir Plyatskovsky, David Reckziegel, Andrey Shatilov, Karsten Stöter, Christiane Thieme, Tatyana Tverskaya, Alla Tyaglova, Alla Verlotsky
Actors: Sergey Dreyden, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, Mikhail Piotrovsky, David Giorgobiani, Aleksandr Chaban, Lev Eliseev, Oleg Khmelnitsky, Alla Osipenko, Artyom Strelnikov, Tamara Kurenkova, Maksim Sergeev, Natalya Nikulenko, Elena Rufanova, Yelena Spiridonova, Konstantin Anisimov, Aleksey Barabash, Ilya Shakunov, Anna Aleksakhina, Vladimir Baranov, Valentin Bukin, Svetlana Gaytan, Vadim Gushchin, Kirill Dateshidze, Mikhail Dorofeev, Valentina Egorenkova, Oleg Efremov, Sergey Losev, Vadim Lobanov, Vladimir Lisetsky, Aleksandr Malnykin, Kirill Miller, Viktor Mikhaylov, Sergey Muchenikov, Sergey Nadporozhskiy, Yuriy Orlov, Aleksandr Razbash, Vladimir Sevostyanikhin, Boris Smolkin, Evgeniy Filatov, Yuri Khomutyansky, Anatoliy Shvederskiy, Valery Gergiev, The State Hermitage Orchestra, Yuriy Ageykin, Alexander Andreev, Dmitri Alexandrov, Aleksandr Alekseev, Andrey Arshinnikov, Ismat Ashurov, Artashes Aleksanyan, Dmitri Bekoyev, Vladimir Belovolsky, Alexander Balonin, Galina Burkina, Suren Vartanov, Sergey Vasilev, Igor Volkov, Roman Gabriya, Ivan Guskov, Nikolai Gravshin, Konstantin Demidov, Anatoliy Dubanov, Mikhail Yegorov, Olga Yetseyova, Alexey Yemelyanov, Yulian Makarov, Dmitry Zelnitsky, Dmitriy Zebrov, Arseny Ivankovich, Yefim Ioffe, Svetlana Kushakova, Tamara Kolesnikova, Olga Kalmykova, Valentina Kasyanova, Yuriy Kalugin, Michail Karavayev, Victor Kraslansky, Vladimir Cknat, Valeri Kozinets, Aleksei Krymov, Andrey Kovel, Andrey Letnikov, Mikhail Legkov, Konstantin Lukonin, Konstantin Mukchin, Yefim Malkov, Pavel Novikov, Igor Okrepilov, Irina Osnovina, Ekaterina Polyakova, Yelene Pavlikova, Oleg Palmov, Sergey Remizov, Ruslan Sadykov, Yuliya Sergeyeva, Vladimir Solovyov, Dzhafar Rasulov, Valeri Smolyakov, Svetlana Svirko, Michail Colovyov, Semyon Sytnik, Boris Sokolov, Irina Tychinina, Nikolai Fyodortsov, Valeriy Filonov, Darya Khudyakova, Vladimir Chernyshov, Anatoly Chernigin, Ekaterina Shimelyeva, Andrei Shchepochkin, Anna Antonelli, Marsha Libova, Ira Lebedeva, Katya Ponomoveva, Anya Penny, Anya Solovyova, Pavel Titov, Polina Uranova, Sasha Shupovaloa, Sergey Agatomov, Alexander Anchukov, Shamil Boltacheyev, Egor Bakulin, Alexander Bassov, Olga Belyavskaya, Mark Gavrilov, Natalya German-Tzarkova, Ekaterina Gorokhovskaya, Svetlana Gmedina, Anna Gorodko, Helena Gorbunova, Alexander Derzhenov, Maxim Doronin, Yekaterina Drunova, Julia Zhuravlyona, Yury Zagrebnev, Anna Yekaterininskaya, Sergey Yelikov, Sergey Katyashka, Valentin Kuzinetsov, Aleksandr Kulikov, Aleksandra Kulikova, Alexander Kulatko, Alisa Kondrateva, Marianna Kostyakina, Dmitry Lemoshev, Oksana Klotko, Nataliya Kadochnikova, Mariya Lavrova, Margarita Lukina, Oksana Merzlyakova, Maria Mescheryakova, Artur Mkrtchan, Alla Oding, Alexander Orlov, Alexey Oding, Kirill Petrov, Rodion Prikhodka, Asya Razhouk, Sergey Romanyuk, Andrey Rodimov, Yuliya Rudina, Elena Simonova, Vanda Starodubtsova, Irina Ternovova, Alexander Trofimov, Svetlana Ulyanova, Kirill Ulyanov, Tatyana Uchayeva, Aleksey Fedkin, Boris Khasanov, Aleksandr Tsybulskiy, Vsevolod Tsarilo, Rosina Tsidulko, Irina Tsyplukhina, Alexander Shaporov, Asya Shirshina, Asya Shibarova, Yuliya Shubareva, Pavel Yanutsh, Philippe Baron, Sasha Durpfen, Svetlana Nemirovskaya, Aleksandr Petrov, Aleksey Vasilev, Oleg Losev, Svetlana Smirnova, Aleksandr Sokurov
Description: An unseen man regains consciousness, not knowing who or where he is. No one seems to be able to see him, except the mysterious man dressed in black. He eventually learns through their discussions that this man is a 19th century French aristocrat, who he coins the "European". This turn of events is unusual as the unseen man has a knowledge of the present day. The two quickly learn that they are in the Winter Palace of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the European who has a comprehensive knowledge of Russian history to his time. As the two travel through the palace and its grounds, they interact with people from various eras of Russian history, either through events that have happened at the palace or through the viewing of artifacts housed in the museum. Ultimately, the unseen man's desired journey is to move forward, with or without his European companion.
Comments: A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years. ------- An unseen man regains consciousness, not knowing who or where he is. No one seems to be able to see him, except the mysterious man dressed in black. He eventually learns through their discussions that this man is a 19th century French aristocrat, who he coins the "European". This turn of events is unusual as the unseen man has a knowledge of the present day. The two quickly learn that they are in the Winter Palace of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the European who has a comprehensive knowledge of Russian history to his time. As the two travel through the palace and its grounds, they interact with people from various eras of Russian history, either through events that have happened at the palace or through the viewing of artifacts housed in the museum. Ultimately, the unseen man's desired journey is to move forward, with or without his European companion. ------- A unseen man awakens, not knowing who he is or where he is from. From the clothes of those around him, he believes he is in 18th century Russia. He is apparently invisible to those around him except for one person, the man in black, who seems as lost as he is. They are in the Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg and together walk through the various rooms, entering a different era on each occasion. The man in black interacts with the people he meets there and offers a commentary on the works of art. The film is notable for having been filmed in one continuous shot. ------- Told in one fluid shot, a tale which floats like a dreamlike journey through the majestic spaces of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, engaging real and imagined characters from Russian and European history. The nameless protagonist, a 19th-century French diplomat, guides the audience through a lost, sumptuous dream that was the Enlightenment period. The film, staged among some of the Western Art tradition's greatest masterpieces, climaxes in a pageant of color, motion, and music. For Sokurov, the Hermitage--home to generations of Romonovs and repository of so much Russian history--is the ark of the Russian soul, guarding it affectionately until the world sees better days.
Duration: 99 minutes (at 23.976 frames per second)
File path: Z:\02066 - Russian Ark (2002) [DVDRip]\Russian.Ark.(2002).DVDRip.XViD-CHASE.avi
Filesize: 692 MB
Video: XviD - resolution: 576x320
Audio:
Subtitles: Serbian, English