Directed by:
Aleksandr SokurovScreenplay:
Svetlana ProskurinaCinematography:
Tilman BüttnerComposer:
Sergei YevtushenkoCast:
Sergey Dontsov, Мария Владимировна Кузнецова, Leonid Mozgovoy, Edisher Giorgobiani, Yelena Rufanova, Aleksandr Razbash, Viktor Mikhaylov (more)VOD (1)
Plots(1)
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. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Aleksey Ispolatov
Best movies:
Idiot (2003) (series)
Ugly Swans (2006)
Russian Ark (2002)
Mikhail Dorofeev
Best movies:
Oblomov (1979)
Peculiarities of the National Fishing (1998)
Russian Ark (2002)
Svetlana Nemirovskaya
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Ugly Swans (2006)
Russian Ark (2002)
Edelweisspiraten (2004)
Константин Луконин
Best movies:
Russian Ark (2002)
Maksim Krupskiy
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Russian Ark (2002)
Elena Saveleva
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Downfall (2004)
Svoi (2004)
Russian Ark (2002)
Rodion Prikhodko
Soviet Union
Best movies:
Puškin: Posledňaja duel (2006)
Russian Ark (2002)
Attack on Leningrad (2009)
Mikhail Sharautin
Best movies:
Russian Ark (2002)
Michail Jegorov
Best movies:
Doctor Zhivago (2005) (series)
Russian Ark (2002)