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Russian Ark

2002 · Movie · 99 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer89%as of 2021-10-10
  • Rotten Tomatoes average7.9/10as of 2021-10-10
  • Metacritic87/100as of 2024-02-26

What it is

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.

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Genres
Fantasy / Mystery
Original language
Russian

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