Russian Ark

Eyes Wide Shut without the orgy. An unseen narrator floats through the Winter Palace with a foppish 19th-century diplomat. History becomes a ghostly, unspooling procession. A technical marvel, yes, but also a reminder of cinema's potential to conjure.

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Aleksandr Sokurov directed Russian Ark in 2002. See Aleksandr Sokurov's full filmography, where to start with Aleksandr Sokurov, or where to go after you've seen everything by Aleksandr Sokurov.

Russian Ark was released in 2002 (RU original-language production), with a runtime of 99 minutes.