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Arca russa
by Alexander Sokurov
Russia, Germany 2002, 96′
Presented at Schermo dell’arte 2015, VIII Edizione
Screenplay: Aleksandr Sokurov, Anatoli Nikiforov, Boris Khaimsky, Svetlana Proskurina
Photography: Tilman Büttner
Editing: Stefan Ciupek, Sergej Ivanov, Betina Kuntzsch
Photography: Tilman Büttner
Editing: Stefan Ciupek, Sergej Ivanov, Betina Kuntzsch
Music: Sergei Yevtushenko
Producers: Andrey Deryabin, Jens Meurer, Karsten Stöter
Language: Russian
Producers: Andrey Deryabin, Jens Meurer, Karsten Stöter
Language: Russian
The camera takes the viewer on a journey through time and art in the Hermitage Museum of Saint Petersburg. Accompanying it is a French diplomat from the nineteenth century. An extraordinary production feat (4,500 actors and extras, 3 orchestras, 22 assistant directors, 50 electricians), the film is a single continuous digital tracking shot. Through the palace’s halls, corridors, and rooms, the two visitors encounter the figures who once inhabited it—Peter the Great, Catherine II, the last Romanov Nicholas II—up to the tourists of today.