Movie
2002
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…
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Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark is a thing of pure beauty; a film that will forever be cemented in both cinema and Russia's history. Russian Ark is an incredible film shot entirely in one single take. That means there are no scenes; there are no cuts; it is a camera following a wonderful narrator throughout the Winter Palace of the Russian State Hermitage Museum with the narrative of them both being dead, from what…More
