SOKUROV, Aleksandr
Russkii kovcheg [Russian Ark]
Studiia Ermitazhnyi most, St Petersburg, and Egoli Tossell Film AG, Berlin, with Sluzhba kinematograii Ministerstva kul´tury Rossiiskoi Federatsii, NHK, Seville Pictures Inc, KOPP-MEDIA, WDR/ARTE, Fora Film M, AST Studio, 2002
Producers Andrei Deriabin, Karsten Stöter, Jens Meurer
Script Aleksandr Sokurov, Anatolii Nikiforov
Dialogue Boris Khaimskii, Aleksandr Sokurov, Svetlana Proskurina
Director of Photography Tilman Büttner
Visual concept and principal image design Aleksandr Sokurov
Art direction Elena Zhukova, Natal´ia Kochergina
Costume design Lidiia Kriukova, Tamara Seferian, Mariia Grishanova
Sound Vladimir Persov, Sergei Moshkov
Composer Sergei Evtushenko
Music performed by The Mariinskii Theatre Orchestra, conducted by Valerii Gergiev; State Hermitage Orchestra, St Petersburg Kamerata
Choreography Galii Abaidulov
Computer Graphics KOPPFILM GmbH studio
The stranger Sergei Dreiden Catherine the Great Mariia Kuznetsova The spy Leonid Mozgovoi Mikhail Piotrovskii Himself Orbeli David Giorgobiani Boris Piotrovskii Aleksandr Chaban Lev Eliseev Himself Oleg Khmel´nitskii Himself Alla Osipenko Herself Talented boy Artem Strel´nikov Tamara Kurenkova Herself Peter the Great Maksim Sergeev Catherine the Great Natal´ia Nikulenko First lady Elena Rufanova Second lady Elena Spiridonova Nicholas I Iulii Zhurin Aleksandra Fedorovna, the consort of Nicholas I Svetlana Svirko First cavalier Konstantin Anisimov Second cavalier Aleksei Barabash Third cavalier Il´ia Shakunov Fourth cavalier Aleksandr Kulikov Nicholas II Vladimir Baranov Aleksandra Fedorovna, the consort of Nicholas II Anna Aleksakhina Military official Valentin Bukin Museum attendant Svetlana Gaitan Grandee of Catherine the Great Vadim Gushchin Master of Ceremonies Kirill Dateshidze First card player Mikhail Dorofeev Maid of Honour of Catherine the Great Valentina Egorenkova Museum official Oleg Efremov Court official Sergei Losev Lord Chamberlain Vadim Lobanov Court Minister Vladimir Lisetskii Court official Kirill Miller Court official Viktor Mikhailov Museum official Sergei Muchenikov Court official Sergei Nadporozhskii Grandee of Catherine the Great Iurii Orlov Museum official Aleksandr Razbash Under-tutor of the Heir Vladimir Sevast´ianikhin Widow Svetlana Smirnova Chancellor Nesselrode Boris Smolkin Second card player Evgenii Filatov Minister of Peter the Great Aleksandr Malyshkin Insane Italian Iurii Khomutianskii Marshal Anatolii Shvederskii95 minutes
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SOKUROV, Aleksandr
Rober. Schastlivaia zhizn´ [Hubert Robert. A Fortunate Life]
Gosudarstvennyi Ermitazh, Studiia Ermitazhnyi most, 1996
Film in the 'Mir Ermitazha' programme
Project co-ordinator V.Iu. Matveev
Producer Andrei Deriabin
Executive producer Viktor Gailiunas
Text Aleksandr Sokurov
Photography Aleksei Fedorov
Sound Vladimir Persov
Editor Leda Semenova
Music Albinoni, Glinka, Mozart, Chiakovskii, in instrumental versions by Sergei Evtushenko
27 minutes
In Russian with English subtitles
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ESTERMANN, Knut
In One Breath. Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark
Egoli Tossell Film AG and Studiia Ermitazhnyi most, 2003
Producers Jens Meurer, Karsten Stöter, Andrei Deriabin
Text Knut Estermann
Editing and postproduction Jörg Hauschild
Camera Michal Bukojemski, Dmitrii Shevelev, Aleksandr Degtiarev, Christine A. Maier, Stefan Ciupek, Jens Meurer
Narrator Christa Lewis
Interviews with Aleksandr Sokurov, Sergei Ivanov and Hens Meurer by Christiane Giesen
Interviews with Mikhail Piotrovskii and Valerii Gergiev by Andrei Deriabin
Interviews with Tilman Büttner and Ron Holloway by Knut Estermann
43 minutes
In Russian, English and German with English subtitles
| DVD | |
| Region code | 2 |
| Aspect ratio | Enhanced for widescreen TVs |
| Languages | English subtitles on all three films. The subtitles on Russian Ark are optional. |
| Features | Theatrical trailer Biographies and filmographies for the director, Aleksandr Sokurov and the director of photography, Tilman Büttner. Production notes leads to a] Notes by Professor Mikhail Piotrovskii, Director of the State Hermitage Museum [text]; and b] The State Hermitage Museum [text]. Weblinks when played through a computer. |
| Source | Artificial Eye |