Russian Ark

Directed by Aleksandr Sokurov
Not Rated
2002    1h 39mDrama, Mystery,
7.289%80%
A 19th century French aristocrat, notorious for his scathing memoirs about life in Russia, travels through the Russian State Hermitage Museum and encounters historical figures from the last 200+ years.

Cast of Russian Ark

  • Sergey DreydenThe Stranger (The Marquis de Custine)
  • Mariya KuznetsovaCatherine The Great
  • Leonid MozgovoyThe Spy
  • Mikhail PiotrovskySelf (Hermitage Director)
  • Edisher (Davit) GiorgobianiOrbeli
  • Aleksandr ChabanBoris Piotrovsky
  • Lev EliseevSelf
  • Oleg KhmelnitskySelf
  • Alla OsipenkoSelf
  • Artyom StrelnikovTalented Boy
  • Tamara KurenkovaSelf (Blind Woman)
  • Maxim SergeevPeter the Great
  • Natalya NikulenkoCatherine the Great
  • Elena RufanovaFirst Lady
  • Elena KramerSecond Lady
  • Konstantin AnisimovFirst Cavalier
  • Aleksey BarabashSecond Cavalier
  • Ilya ShakunovThird Cavalier
  • Aleksandr KulikovFourth Cavalier
  • Anna AleksakhinaAlexandra Feodorovna, Wife of Nicholas II
  • Vladimir BaranovNicholas II
  • Anna AntonelliPrincess Anastasia
  • Valentin BukinMilitary Official
  • Svetlana GaytanMuseum Custodian
  • Vadim GushchinGrandee of Catherine the Great
  • Kirill DateshidzeMaster of Ceremonies
  • Mikhail DorofeevFirst Card Player
  • Valentina EgorenkovaMaid of Honor of Catherine the Great
  • Oleg EfremovMuseum Official
  • Sergei LosevCourt Official
  • Vadim LobanovLord Chamberlain
  • Vladimir LisetskyCourt Minister
  • Aleksandr MalnykinServant of Peter the Great
  • Kirill MillerCourt Official
  • Viktor MikhaylovCourt Official
  • Sergey MuchenikovMuseum Official
  • Sergey NadporozhskiyCourt Official
  • Yuriy OrlovGrandee of Catherine the Great
  • Aleksandr RazbashMuseum Official
  • Boris SmolkinChancellor Nesselrode
  • Evgeny FilatovSecond Card Player
  • Yuri KhomutyanskyInsane Italian
  • Anatoliy ShvederskiyMarshall
  • Valery GergievConductor
  • Igor VolkovAmbassador
  • Svetlana SvirkoAlexandra Feodorovna, Wife of Nicholas I
  • Konstantin MukhinThe Counterman
  • Sasha DurpfenMarie Sinclair (as Sandra Orlow)
  • Yuriy Ageykin
  • Alexandr Andreev
  • Dimitri Alexander
  • Alexander Alexeev
  • Andrey Arshinnikov
  • Ismat Ashurov
  • Artashes Aleksanyan
  • Dmitri Bekoyev
  • Oleg Palmov
  • Aleksandr Tsybulsky
  • Aleksandr Petrov
  • Serhii Romaniuk
  • Nikolay Gravshin
  • Konstantin Demidov
  • Anatoly Dubanov
  • Aleksey Emelyanov
  • Dmitriy Zebrov
  • Yefim Ioffe
  • Olga Kalmykova
  • Valentina Kasyanova
  • Yuriy Kalugin
  • Valeri Kozinets
  • Aleksei Krymov
  • Igor Okrepilov
  • Irina Osnovina
  • Valeri Smolyakov
  • Boris Sokolov
  • Nikolay Fedortsov
  • Valeriy Filonov
  • Darya Khudyakova
  • Vladimir Chernyshov
  • Andrey Shchepochkin
  • Anya Antonelly
  • Egor Bakulin
  • Olga Belyavskaya
  • Mark Gavrilov
  • Yekaterina Gorokhovskaya
  • Anna Ekaterininskaya
  • Sergey Yelikov
  • Aleksandra Kulikova
  • Nataliya Kadochnikova
  • Mariya Lavrova
  • Maria Mescheryakova
  • Artur Mkrtchyan
  • Aleksey Oding
  • Alla Oding
  • Kirill Petrov
  • Rodion Prikhodko
  • Andrey Rodimov
  • Yuliya Rudina
  • Elena Simonova
  • Kirill Ulyanov
  • Aleksey Fedkin
  • Boris Khasanov
  • Rosina Tsidulko
  • Yuliya Shubareva
  • Svetlana Nemirovskaya
  • Vsevolod Tsurilo
  • Nataliya Tarynycheva
  • Khelga Filippova
  • Vyacheslav Manucharov
  • Elena Savelieva
  • Anna Dyukova
  • Igor Besschastnov
  • Aleksey Vasilev
  • Mikhail Terentyev
  • Mikhail Sharautin
  • Sergey Peregudov
  • Yuliya Gorshenina
  • Gali Abaydulov
  • Roman Rolbin
  • Pavel Kornakov
  • Aleksandr Karpov
  • Vladimir Belovolsky
  • Alexander Balonin
  • Galina Burkina
  • Eyyup Can UlasJohn (voice)
  • Aleksandr SokurovThe Time Traveller (voice / uncredited) / Director / Writer
  • Svetlana SmirnovaWidow (uncredited)
  • Oleg LosevCourt Official (uncredited)
  • Filipp Baron
  • Vladimir SevostyanikhinUnder-tutor of the Heir
  • Yulian Makarov
  • Anatoly NikiforovWriter
  • Andrew ColtonProducer
  • Oliver DamianProducer
  • John HamiltonProducer
  • Vladimir PlyatskovskyProducer
  • Alla VerlotskyProducer
  • Andrey DeryabinProducer
  • Jens MeurerProducer
  • Karsten StöterProducer

Russian Ark Ratings & Reviews

  • Jefferson BittencourtJuly 5, 2025
    To me, a masterpiece. The technical feat of filming everything in a single continuous shot is both special and magnificent, but what moves me most in this film is the poetry of the music with the images, the sound design with the light in each frame. Sokurov is one of the greats of our time.

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