Russian Ark (Blu-ray)
2000 cast members, 3 orchestras, 33 rooms, 300 years, ALL IN ONE TAKE
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 39 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 19, 2013
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Kino Lorber
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Sergey Dreiden & Maria Kuznetsova | |
Performer: | Leonid Mozgovoy, Mikhail Piotrovsky, David Giorgobiani, Alexander Chaban, Lev Yeliseyev, Oleg Khmelnitsky, Alla Osipenko & Artem Strelnikov | |
Directed by | Aleksandr Sokurov | |
Music Performer: | State Hermitage Orchestra | |
Composition by | Sergey Yevtushenko | |
Produced by | Jens Meurer, Andrey Deryabin & Karsten Stoter | |
Director of Photography: | Tilman Büttner |
Entertainment Reviews:
...The movie is a meditation on the love and envy that Russia has always felt toward Europe...
Entertainment Weekly
Russian Ark is an astounding technical feat that must be seen to be believed.
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FILMINK (Australia)
Rating: 4/5 --
A marvel of a film that makes the Hermitage its star.
Orlando Sentinel
Rating: 5/5 --
This is as immersive-and as Shining-level spooky-as history gets.
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Time Out
Rating: 10/10 --
[Characterizes] history as a large rush of information so huge, alive, and easy to get lost in that it would feel a shame if there existed nothing to give us a conduit to it.
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Window to the Movies
Rating: A --
Might well be the first real masterpiece of the 21st Century.
Denver Rocky Mountain News
The movie's smooth voyage comes to seem like a dream play, suspended painlessly in time.
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Village Voice
Product Description:
A visually hypnotizing cinematic feat, RUSSIAN ARK is Alexsandr Sokurov's spellbinding ode to St. Petersburg's State Hermitage Museum. Shot in one fluid take using High Definition video cameras, the photography floats and careens through the lavish corridors of the museum, examining its architectural details while following a dreamlike plot. A cast of 867 actors supply the action of the film, whether dancing the mazurka in a lively ballroom, performing a military salute, or watching a theater performance. The Marquis (Sergey Dreiden), an aged but limber European dressed in solid black, is the film's charismatic guide, leading the narrator--who is the unidentified voice behind the camera--through each doorway and into each gallery in a sweeping tour of the Hermitage. While the Marquis interacts with some of the guests, debating about Italian art with a couple of Russian scholars, delighting over rich paintings by Rubens and Van Dyck with an angelic blind woman, taking a lively brunette for a spin on the dance floor, others do not see him. Even the narrator suspects that the Marquis is a ghost, long dead and wandering the Hermitage in a quest to better understand history. Time periods, indicated by style of dress, fluctuate between the 1700s and the present. Famous Russian figures, such as Peter the Great, Nicholas I, and Catherine the Great appear and then disappear, with no explanation of their roles. Between the Marquis and the narrator, confusion reigns. They are spectators and trespassers in this mysterious space, trying to find their way.
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- Sales Rank: 79,291
- UPC: 738329111625
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