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Russian Ark. Go watch it. It's a Russian foreign film...
Thousands of actors and actresses. Three live orchestras. 33 rooms at the Hermitage Museum. 300 years of Russian history. All in one long, continuous, uninterrupted take. 98 minutes...filmed in one day...in a single take. One camera. That's an amazing feat.
Imdb.com's description:
"Told in one fluid shot, a tale which floats like a dreamlike journey through the majestic spaces of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, engaging real and imagined characters from Russian and European history. The nameless protagonist, a 19th-century French diplomat, guides the audience through a lost, sumptuous dream that was the Enlightenment period. The film, staged among some of the Western Art tradition's greatest masterpieces, climaxes in a pageant of color, motion, and music. For Sokurov, the Hermitage--home to generations of Romonovs and repository of so much Russian history--is the ark of the Russian soul, guarding it affectionately until the world sees better days."
Thousands of actors and actresses. Three live orchestras. 33 rooms at the Hermitage Museum. 300 years of Russian history. All in one long, continuous, uninterrupted take. 98 minutes...filmed in one day...in a single take. One camera. That's an amazing feat.
Imdb.com's description:
"Told in one fluid shot, a tale which floats like a dreamlike journey through the majestic spaces of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, engaging real and imagined characters from Russian and European history. The nameless protagonist, a 19th-century French diplomat, guides the audience through a lost, sumptuous dream that was the Enlightenment period. The film, staged among some of the Western Art tradition's greatest masterpieces, climaxes in a pageant of color, motion, and music. For Sokurov, the Hermitage--home to generations of Romonovs and repository of so much Russian history--is the ark of the Russian soul, guarding it affectionately until the world sees better days."