May 22, 2002
99 min
Full-HD

Russian Ark (2002)

A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.

Category

Drama Fantasy History

Country

Canada Denmark Finland Germany Japan Russia

Companies

Hermitage Bridge Studio, The State Hermitage Museum WDR/Arte Fora Film Koppmedia NHK DR AST Studios Mariinsky Theatre FilmFörderung Hamburg YLE Egoli Tossell Film Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung

Sergei Dreiden

The Stranger (The Marquis de Custine)

Mariya Kuznetsova

Catherine The Great

Leonid Mozgovoy

The Spy

Mikhail Piotrovsky

Self (Hermitage Director)

David Giorgobiani

Orbeli

Aleksandr Chaban

Boris Piotrovsky

Lev Eliseev

Self

Oleg Khmelnitsky

Self

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