[Program title] LE TEMP DEVANT SOI Ⅰ- Le temps de l’histoire, Les temps de l’histoire
[Film title] Russian Ark
[Date] 2012.5.3 – 5.27
[Screen time]1hr 36min.
Russian Ark
2002, Germany/ Russian /Japan color 96min./35mm
Directed by Aleksandr Sokurov
written by Anatoli Nikiforov, Aleksandr Sokurov
dialogue by Boris Khaimsky, Svetlana Proskurina, Aleksandr Sokurov
Produced by Andrey Deryabin
Original Music by Sergei Yevtushenko
Sokurov’s Russian Ark is an unprecedented tour de force in the film history that depicts 300 years of modern Russian history in a single 90-minute shot. The Marquis de Custine, the French diplomat and a real historical figure, along with Sokurov’s voice, leads the audience through the rooms of the Hermitage Museum that have born witness to so many historical events – Catherine the Great attending a theatrical performance, Tsar Nicholas I receiving the Persian ambassador, Tsar Nicholas II and his family at dinner before meeting their tragic end. This fantastic film, which is a palimpsest of epochs from Tsarist Russia to the eve of the Communist Revolution, will hold its viewer literally breathless during this 90 minutes feat.