Film

Russian Ark

2000 cast members, 3 orchestras, 33 rooms, 300 years, ALL IN ONE TAKE

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

Top cast

Sergey Dreyden

Marquis de Custine

Mariya Kuznetsova

Catherine The Great

Leonid Mozgovoy

The Spy

Mikhail Piotrovsky

Hermitage director

Edisher (Davit) Giorgobiani

Orbeli

Aleksandr Chaban

Boris Piotrovsky

Lev Eliseev

Self

Oleg Khmelnitsky

Self

Alla Osipenko

Self

Artyom Strelnikov

talented boy

Tamara Kurenkova

blind woman

Maxim Sergeev

Peter the Great

Natalya Nikulenko

Catherine the Great

Elena Rufanova

First Lady

Elena Kramer

Second Lady

Konstantin Anisimov

First Cavalier

Aleksey Barabash

Second Cavalier

Ilya Shakunov

Third Cavalier

Aleksandr Sokurov

Aleksandr Sokurov, Anatoly Nikiforov

Oliver Damian, Andrew Colton, Vladimir Plyatskovsky, John Hamilton