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Russian Ark (Russki Kovcheg)
| Rating: | No Rating |
| Genre: | Drama |
| Release Date: | December 13, 2002 |
| Running time: | 96 minutes |
| Cast: | Sergei Dontsov, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, David Giorgobiani, Aleksandr Chaban |
| Director: | Aleksandr Sokurov |
| Producer: | Andrei Deryabin, Jens Meuer, Karsten Stöter |
| Writer: | Boris Khaimsky, Anatoli Nikiforov |
| Distributor: | Wellspring Media |
Description: Told in one fluid shot, a tale, which floats like a dreamlike journey through the spaces of the majestic 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--meant to be considered and experienced as the Enlightenment period. The film-staged among some of the masterpieces of the Western Art tradition--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.
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