Russian Ark
2000 cast members, 3 orchestras, 33 rooms, 300 years, ALL IN ONE TAKE
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A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.
Trailer
Cast
Egor Bakulin
Anna Ekaterininskaya
Aleksandr Karpov
Lev Eliseev
Self
Valentina Egorenkova
Maid of Honor of Catherine the Great
Sergey Peregudov
Leonid Mozgovoy
The Spy
Evgeny Filatov
Second Card Player
Konstantin Demidov
Nataliya Kadochnikova
Boris Khasanov
Aleksey Vasilev
Aleksandr Sokurov
The Time Traveller (voice / uncredited)
Kirill Dateshidze
Master of Ceremonies
Serhii Romaniuk
Andrey Rodimov
Boris Smolkin
Chancellor Nesselrode
Yuriy Ageykin
Rodion Prikhodko
Alla Osipenko
Self
Dmitri Bekoyev
Vladimir Lisetsky
Court Minister
Mariya Kuznetsova
Catherine The Great
Maxim Sergeev
Peter the Great
Aleksey Barabash
Second Cavalier
Yefim Ioffe
Valentina Kasyanova
Elena Simonova
Nikolay Gravshin
Darya Khudyakova
Artur Mkrtchyan
Aleksandr Petrov
Igor Besschastnov
Svetlana Svirko
Alexandra Feodorovna - wife of Nicholas I
Valeriy Filonov
Anna Dyukova
Vadim Lobanov
Lord Chamberlain
Olga Kalmykova
Artashes Aleksanyan
Alexander Alexeev
Andrey Shchepochkin
Aleksandr Kulikov
Fourth Cavalier
Dmitri Alexandrov
Irina Osnovina
Vyacheslav Manucharov
Svetlana Gaytan
Museum Custodian
Mikhail Dorofeev
First Card Player
Aleksey Oding
Dmitriy Zebrov
Edisher (Davit) Giorgobiani
Orbeli
Viktor Mikhaylov
Court Official
Yuliya Rudina
Yuliya Shubareva
Anatoly Dubanov
Igor Okrepilov
Boris Sokolov
Vsevolod Tsurilo
Pavel Kornakov
Sergey Muchenikov
Museum Official
Valeri Kozinets
Maria Mescheryakova
Valentin Bukin
Military Official
Oleg Efremov
Museum Official
Sergei Losev
Court Official
Svetlana Smirnova
Widow (uncredited)
Yuriy Orlov
Grandee of Catherine the Great
Anatoliy Shvederskiy
Marshall
Aleksey Emelyanov
Alla Oding
Elena Rufanova
First Lady
Anna Aleksakhina
Alexandra Feodorovna - wife of Nicholas II
Oleg Palmov
Mark Gavrilov
Yuliya Gorshenina
Yuriy Kalugin
Yekaterina Gorokhovskaya
Aleksey Fedkin
Aleksandr Chaban
Boris Piotrovsky
Kirill Miller
Court Official
Ilya Shakunov
Third Cavalier
Valery Gergiev
Conductor
Sergey Dreyden
Marquis de Custine
Khelga Filippova
Kirill Petrov
Vladimir Baranov
Nicholas II
Aleksandr Tsybulsky
Vladimir Chernyshov
Olga Belyavskaya
Philipp Baron
Vadim Gushchin
Grandee of Catherine the Great
Konstantin Anisimov
First Cavalier
Mariya Lavrova
Kirill Ulyanov
Gali Abaydulov
Elena Kramer
Second Lady
Aleksandr Razbash
Museum Official
Igor Volkov
Ambassador