Aleksandr Sokurov
Tikhie stranitsy (Whispering Pages)
Edition 1994
77'
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1994
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Drama
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Dialogue:
Russian
Director:
Aleksandr Sokurov
With:
Aleksandr Cherednik, Elizaveta Koroleva, Sergey Barkovskiy
Slow, mediative pans reveal docks, arches, poor housing, a government office and a short violent street scene; noisy groups of people, but above all silent individuals, deep in thought - members of the lower-middle class, clerks, beggars, prostitutes and murderers. Quotes from Russian 19th century literature (Gogol, Gorky, Ostrovsky and especially Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment) create an associative world of images powered by internal dramaturgy and evocative power. The film's purpose is to make the viewer reflect sensitively on the eternal subject of crime and punishment but also on the social and religious significance of life.
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Credits
Director
Aleksandr Sokurov
With
Aleksandr Cherednik, Elizaveta Koroleva, Sergey Barkovskiy
Scenario
Yuriy Arabov, Andrey Chernykh
Director of Photography
Aleksandr Burov
Editor
Leda Semyonova
Producer
Vladimir Fotiyev, Martin Hagemann, Thomas Kufus
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Dialogue
Russian
Countries of production
Russia, Germany
Screenplay based on
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Year
1994
Filmography
Aleksandr Sokurov
The Elegy from Russia (1993), Whispering Pages (1994), Dukhovnye golosa. Iz dnevnikov voyny. Povestvovanie v pyati chastyakh (1995), A Humble Life (1997), Dolce... (2000), Taurus (2001), Elegy of a Voyage (2001), Russian Ark (2002), Father and Son (2003), The Sun (2005), Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya (2006), Alexandra (2007), Reading Book of Blockade (2009), Intonatsiya (2010), Intonatsiya. Vladimir Yakunin (2010), We Need Happiness (2010), Faust (2011), Francofonia (2015), Fairytale (2022)
