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and he himself was very religious. Custine's book mocks Russian civilization as a thin veneer of Europe on an Asiatic soul. For Custine, Europe was "civilization" while Asia was "barbarism", and his placing of Russia as a part of Asia rather than Europe was meant to deny that Russians had any sort of
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where everything is still beautiful and elegant, and does not want to go any further. The narrator then walks backwards out the hallway and sees many people from different time periods exiting the building together. As he watches them, the narrator quietly departs the procession, leaves the building
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could be reworked in detail: besides many object removals (mainly cables and other film equipment), compositings (e.g. additional snow or fog), stabilisations, selective colour-corrections and digitally added focus changes, the whole film was continuously and dynamically reframed (resized) and for
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In a 2002 interview, Büttner said that film sound was recorded separately. "Every time I did the take, or someone else made a mistake, I would curse, and that would have gotten in, so we did the sound later." Lighting directors of photography on the film were
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civilization worthy of the name. Echoing this sentiment, the film's European comments that Russia is a theater and that the people he meets are actors. The Marquis's family fortune came from a porcelain works, hence the European's interest in the
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camera. The information was not recorded compressed to tape as usual, but uncompressed onto a hard disk which could hold 100 minutes which was carried behind the cameraman as he traveled from room to room, scene to scene. According to
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it performed strongly in many territories. These include the UK, Japan, Korea, Argentina, and especially the US, where the film remains one of the most successful of both German and Russian movies of recent decades.
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wrote, "Apart from anything else, this is one of the best-sustained ideas I have ever seen on the screen.... he effect of the unbroken flow of images (experimented with in the past by directors like Hitchcock and
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is always in first-person) meets another spectral but visible outsider, "the European", and follows him through numerous rooms of the palace. "The European", a 19th-century French diplomat who appears to be the
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On a winter's day, a small party of men and women arrive by horse-drawn carriage to a minor side entrance of the Winter Palace, dressed in the style of the early 19th century to attend a ball hosted by the
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certain moments even time-warped (slowed down and sped up). This work took several weeks and was mainly executed by editor Patrick Wilfert under supervision of lead editor Sergei Ivanov on
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reported that 89% of critics gave the film a positive review based on 109 reviews, with an average rating of 7.9/10. The consensus review summary reads, "As successful as it is ambitious,
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porcelain waiting for the diplomatic reception. At the end of the film, which depicts the last imperial ball in 1913, the European appears to accept Russia as a European nation.
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is a German-Russian co-production. The film grossed $ 3,048,997 in the United States and Canada, with $ 5,641,171 internationally, for a worldwide total of $ 8,690,168.
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device, but repeatedly broken and re-erected. At times, the narrator and the companion interact with the other performers, while at other times they pass unnoticed.
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and Anatoli Radionov. The director later rejected Büttner's nomination for a European Film Academy award, believing that only the whole film should gain an award.
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The film displays 33 rooms of the museum, which are filled with a cast of over 2,000 actors and three orchestras.
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harassing and striking one of his generals; a spectacular presentation of operas and plays in the era of
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ranked the film 84th in its list of the best films of the 2000s. In a critics' and readers' poll by
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condenses three centuries of Russian history into a single, uninterrupted, 87-minute take." On
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The narrator's guide, "the European", is based on the book by the French aristocrat
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for Best Film. In addition, Alexander Sokurov was named Best Director at
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is widely regarded as one of the greatest Russian films of all time.
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The St. Petersburg Diary: Inauguration of a monument to Dostoevsky
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magazine, it was voted the 358th greatest film of all time.
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The film was not a huge commercial success, though as an
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on 23 December 2001, using a one-take single 87-minute
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Index


Alexander Sokurov
Alexander Sokurov
Sergey Dreyden
Cannes
Russian
romanized
experimental
historical drama
Alexander Sokurov
Winter Palace
Saint Petersburg
Marquis de Custine
international co-production
Winter Palace
Hermitage Museum
Steadicam
sequence shot
fourth wall
2002 Cannes Film Festival
Emperor Alexander I
point of view
Marquis de Custine
Peter the Great
Catherine the Great
Tsar Nicholas I
the Shah of Persia
Khosrow Mirza
Alexander Griboyedov
Tsar Nicholas II

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