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THEATRICAL RELEASE
Dec 13, 2002 (Limited)
VIDEO RELEASE
Sep 9, 2003 (DVD)
Sep 9, 2003 (VHS)
NUMBERS
Box Office: $2,107,387
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CAST & CREW
Sergey Dreiden, Maria Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy
Directed by Aleksandr Sokurov
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SYNOPSIS
A visually hypnotizing cinematic feat, RUSSIAN ARK is Alexsandr Sokurov's spellbinding ode to St. Petersburg's State Hermitage Museum. more...
MPAA RATING
Not Rated
RUNTIME
1 hour, 36 minutes
RELEASE DATES
RELEASE COMPANY
Wellspring
GENRE
Dramas, Foreign Films, Russian, Drama, Time Travel, Historical, Fantasy Worlds
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Russian Ark Site
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DVD FEATURES
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
TIDBITS
PRODUCTION NOTES
NEWS ARTICLES
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "Russian Ark moves beyond a simple technical exercise and into the realm of greatness. It's a masterpiece on every level."
-- Jeffrey M. Anderson, SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
"A marvel like none you've seen."
-- Jason Anderson, EYE WEEKLY
"It's immensely ambitious, different than anything that's been done before and amazingly successful in terms of what it's trying to do."
-- William Arnold, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"The genius of the work speaks volumes, offering up a hallucinatory dreamscape that frustrates and captivates."
-- Jeanne Aufmuth, PALO ALTO WEEKLY
"Even in its most tedious scenes, Russian Ark is mesmerizing."
-- Marta Barber, MIAMI HERALD
"There is a genius to (this) experimental and utterly surreal historical epic that has nothing to do with the fact that it was shot in one uninterrupted, mind-boggling take..."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"An enchanting film that presents an audacious tour of the past and takes within its warm embrace the bounties of cultural artifacts inside St.Petersburg's Hermitage Museum."
-- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH
"300 years of Russian history and culture compressed into an evanescent, seamless and sumptuous stream of consciousness."
-- Duane Dudek, MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL
"Both a grand tour through 300 hundred years of Russian cultural identity and a stunning technical achievement."
-- Ken Fox, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"The film's heady yet far from impenetrable theory suggests that Russians take comfort in their closed-off nationalist reality."
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
"A breezy blend of art, history, esoteric musings and philosophy."
-- Mark Halverson, SACRAMENTO NEWS & REVIEW
"Filmmakers, critics and more than a few curious moviegoers are going to be studying Russian Ark for decades."
-- John Hartl, SEATTLE TIMES
"A mature, deeply felt fantasy of a director's travel through 300 years of Russian history."
-- Harvey S. Karten, COMPUSERVE
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"Anyone who professes to love movies should see Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark."
-- Joe Baltake, SACRAMENTO BEE
"A tour de force of modern cinema."
-- Marjorie Baumgarten, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"The film is visually dazzling, the depicted events dramatic, funny and poignant."
-- Liz Braun, JAM! MOVIES
"Director Aleksandr Sokurov and cinematographer Tilman Buttner have accomplished a truly awe-inspiring feat. It's just a shame that the narrative falls victim to the beast that they have created."
-- Larry Carroll, COUNTINGDOWN.COM
"Russian Ark is a new treasure of the Hermitage."
-- David Elliott, SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE
"As a technical exercise that redefines moviemaking, it is astonishing."
-- Jack Garner, ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE
 "The most hopelessly monotonous film of the year, noteworthy only for the gimmick of being filmed as a single unbroken 87-minute take."
-- Phil Hall, FILM THREAT
"Conceptually, it's brilliant. Technically, it's a marvel. Dramatically, it's about as much fun as an evening with an insurance salesman."
-- Ken Hanke, MOUNTAIN XPRESS (ASHEVILLE, NC)
"Even before it builds up to its insanely staged ballroom scene, in which 3000 actors appear in full regalia, it's waltzed itself into the art film pantheon."
-- Jeremy Heilman, MOVIEMARTYR.COM
"An impressive intellectual stunt."
-- Josh Larsen, SUN PUBLICATIONS (CHICAGO, IL)
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Avg. Rating: 8.8/10 |
"The fluid motion is astounding on any number of levels -- including the physical demands made on Büttner -- and it implies in its wake the intractable, irreversible flow of history."
-- John Anderson, NEWSDAY
"Merely as a technical, logistical feat, Russian Ark marks a cinematic milestone."
-- Kenneth Baker, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"'What's the Russian word for Wow!?'"
-- Richard Corliss, TIME MAGAZINE
"Apart from anything else, this is one of the best-sustained ideas I have ever seen on the screen."
-- Roger Ebert, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES
"The movie is a meditation on the love and envy that Russia has always felt toward Europe, and I won't pretend I got more than 30 percent of what was going on."
-- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"This is a stunning film, a one-of-a-kind tour de force."
-- Eric Harrison, HOUSTON CHRONICLE
"Blithely anachronistic and slyly achronological."
-- J. Hoberman, VILLAGE VOICE
"A magnificent conjuring act, an eerie historical mirage evoked in a single sweeping wave of the hand by Alexander Sokurov."
-- Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES
"This movie in a single breath goes to the very heart of the Russian experience."
-- Kirk Honeycutt, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"An extraordinary dramatic experience."
-- Desson Howe, WASHINGTON POST
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"Casting its gaze on painting masterworks and thousands of jewel-encrusted, elaborately costumed extras, Russian Ark is like nothing you've ever seen."
-- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
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