Russian Ark (Russian: Русский ковчег) is a 2002 Russian film directed by Alexander Sokurov. It was filmed using a single 96-minute Steadicam sequence shot. The film was entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
An unnamed narrator, unseen by the audience and voiced by the director, wanders through the Winter Palace (now the main building of Russian State Hermitage Museum) in Saint Petersburg. The narrator implies that he has died in some horrib...
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Russian Ark (Russian: Русский ковчег) is a 2002 Russian film directed by Alexander Sokurov. It was filmed using a single 96-minute Steadicam sequence shot. The film was entered into the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
An unnamed narrator, unseen by the audience and voiced by the director, wanders through the Winter Palace (now the main building of Russian State Hermitage Museum) in Saint Petersburg. The narrator implies that he has died in some horrible accident and is a ghost drifting through the palace. In each room, he encounters various real and fictional people from various time periods in the city's three-hundred-year history. He is accompanied by "the European" (played by Sergei Dreiden), who represents the nineteenth-century traveller the Marquis de Custine, and who is visible to the audience. The fourth wall is repeatedly broken and re-erected; at times the narrator-director and the companion interact freely with the other performers, and at other times, they go completely...
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