---
title: 'Russian Ark (2002)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Alexander Sokurov'
released: '2002-05-22'
runtime_minutes: 99
genres:
  - 'Fantasy'
  - 'Mystery'
  - 'History'
countries:
  - 'Germany'
  - 'Russia'
  - 'France'
  - 'Denmark'
  - 'Finland'
  - 'Japan'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/russian-ark-2002'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0318034/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Russian Ark (2002)

2002 · 99 min · Fantasy, Mystery, History · Germany, Russia, France, Denmark, Finland, Japan

Original title: Русский ковчег

## Synopsis

Russian Ark is a 2002 experimental historical drama film directed by Alexander Sokurov. The plot follows an unnamed narrator, who wanders through the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg, and implies that he died in some horrible accident and is a ghost drifting through. In each room, he encounters various real and fictional people from various periods in the city's 300-year history. He is accompanied by "the European", who represents the Marquis de Custine, a 19th-century French traveler.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Alexander Sokurov](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexander-sokurov)
- **Screenplay:** [Alexander Sokurov](https://cinepixo.com/people/alexander-sokurov), [Svetlana Proskurina](https://cinepixo.com/people/svetlana-proskurina), [Anatoli Nikiforov](https://cinepixo.com/people/anatoli-nikiforov)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Sergei Yevtushenko](https://cinepixo.com/people/sergei-yevtushenko)
- **Producer:** [Jens Meurer](https://cinepixo.com/people/jens-meurer), [Karsten Stöter](https://cinepixo.com/people/karsten-stoter), [Andrey Deryabin](https://cinepixo.com/people/andrey-deryabin)
- **Director of Photography:** [Tilman Büttner](https://cinepixo.com/people/tilman-buttner)
- **Editor:** [Betina Kuntzsch](https://cinepixo.com/people/betina-kuntzsch)

## Cast

- [Ğali Abaydulov](https://cinepixo.com/people/gali-abaydulov)
- [Svetlana Smirnova](https://cinepixo.com/people/svetlana-smirnova)
- [Vadim Lobanov](https://cinepixo.com/people/vadim-lobanov)
- [Svetlana Anatolevna Nemirovskaja](https://cinepixo.com/people/svetlana-anatolevna-nemirovskaja)
- [Natalya Nikulenko](https://cinepixo.com/people/natalya-nikulenko)
- [Artyom Strelnikov](https://cinepixo.com/people/artyom-strelnikov)
- [Konstantin Demidov](https://cinepixo.com/people/konstantin-demidov)
- [Helga Filippova](https://cinepixo.com/people/helga-filippova)
- [Kirill Miller](https://cinepixo.com/people/kirill-miller)
- [Valentina Yegorenkova](https://cinepixo.com/people/valentina-yegorenkova)
- [Konstantin Anisimov](https://cinepixo.com/people/konstantin-anisimov)
- [Yekaterina Gorokhovskaya](https://cinepixo.com/people/yekaterina-gorokhovskaya)
- [Valentin Bukin](https://cinepixo.com/people/valentin-bukin)
- [Alla Osipenko](https://cinepixo.com/people/alla-osipenko)
- [Valery Gergiev](https://cinepixo.com/people/valery-gergiev)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/russian-ark-2002
Film facts: Wikidata (Q59721); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.