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Russian Ark (2002)
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Cast: Sergey Dreyden, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, Mikhail Piotrovsky
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89%Runtime99 min
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A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.
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Russian Ark, directed by Aleksandr Sokurov in 2002, is a stunning cinematic achievement that blends drama, fantasy, and history into a mesmerizing single-take journey through the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. Fans of avant-garde filmmaking and immersive historical dramas will appreciate Sokurov's virtuosic technical accomplishment and the film's ability to transport viewers through centuries of Russian culture and heritage.
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Russian Ark is a 2002 experimental historical drama film directed by Alexander Sokurov. The plot follows an unnamed narrator, who wanders through the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, and implies that he died in some horrible accident and is a ghost drifting through. In each room, he encounters various real and fictional people from various periods in the city's 300-year history. He is accompanied by "the European", who represents the Marquis de Custine, a 19th-century French traveler.
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