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An international co-production between Russia and Germany, Russian Ark was shot entirely in the Winter Palace of the Russian State Hermitage Museum on 23 December 2001, using a one-take single 87-minute Steadicam sequence shot. It extensively uses the fourth wall device, but repeatedly broken and re-erected.
- $8.7 million
- Sergei Yevtushenko
- ~$2.5 million
- Andrey Deryabin, Jens Meurer, Karsten Stöter
Apr 19, 2003 · Drama Fantasy History. 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. Director. Aleksandr Sokurov.
- (21K)
- Drama, Fantasy, History
- Aleksandr Sokurov
- 2003-04-19
Mar 5, 2024 · The film takes place in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. Russian Ark showcases the grandeur and history of the renowned Hermitage Museum, as the camera glides through its corridors and rooms, capturing various periods of Russian history. The storyline follows a narrator and a mysterious guide.
Jan 31, 2003 · Every review of "Russian Ark" begins by discussing its method. The movie consists of one unbroken shot lasting the entire length of the film, as a camera glides through the Hermitage, the repository of Russian art and history in St. Petersburg.
Aug 20, 2023 · Shot entirely inside the Hermitage Museum, in Saint Petersburg, known for being the ancient winter palace of the Russian czars, Russian Ark is a trip through the history of both a building...
Friday 28 March 2003. The Guardian. Astonishing interiors: a scene from Russian Ark, Alexander Sokurov's tribute to the Hermitage Museum. Alexander Sokurov has a surprisingly ornate clock in...
Digitally shot in a single continuous take, it wanders around St Petersburg's State Hermitage, taking in the building, its furnishings and objets d'art, and a host of characters, historical and contemporary, both named (Peter the Great, Catherine the Great, Nicholas, Alexandra, Anastasia) and anonymous, while pondering the Russian soul and its ...