The State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia)

presents

Hermitage Bridge Studio
Egoli Tossell Film AG production

in association with

Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation,
Department of the State Support for Cinematography

Mitteldeutsche Medienforderung
Filmboard Berlin Brandenburg

Beauftragter der Bundesrepublik
fur Angelegenheiten der Kultur und der Medien
Filmforderung Hamburg
Filmburo Nordhein-Westfalen
Kulturelle Filmforderung Sachsen-Anhalt
The Mariinsky Theater

A film by Alexander Sokurov

Russian Ark

Starring

Sergei Dreiden as Stranger

Maria Kuznetsova
Leonid Mozgovoy
Mikhail Piotrovsky
David Giorgobiani
Alexander Chaban
Lev Yeliseyev
Oleg Khmelnitsky
Alla Osipenko
Artem Strelnikov
Tamara Kurenkova
Maxim Sergeyev
Natalia Nikulenko
Yelena Rufanova
Yelena Spiridonova
Konstantin Anisimov
Alexey Barabash
Ilya Shakunov

Anna Aleksahina
Vladimir Baranov
Valentin Bukin
Svetlana Gaitan
Vadim Guschin
Kirill Dateshidze
Michael Dorofeyev
Valentina Yegorenkova
Oleg Yefremov
Sergey Losev
Vadim Lobanov
Vladimir Lisetsky
Aleksander Malnykin
Kirill Miller
Victor Mikhailov
Sergey Muchenikov
Sergey Nadporozhsky
Yury Orlov
Aleksander Razbash
Vladimir Sevastyanikhin
Svetlana Smirnova
Boris Smolkin
Eugeney Filatov
Jury Khomutyansky
Anatoly Shvedersky

Maestro Valery Gergiev

Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra

The State Hermitage Orchestra

862 actors in crowd scene

Directed by

Alexander Sokurov

Written by

Anatoly Nikiforov
Alexander Sokurov

Dialogues

Boris Khaimsky
Alexander Sokurov
Svetlana Proskurina

Director of Photography

Tilman Büttner

Visual concept and principal image design

Alexander Sokurov

Composer

Sergey Yevtushenko

Music by M. Glinka, P. Chaikovsky,
G. Persella, G. Teleman

Sound Producers

Sergey Moshkov
Vladimir Persov

Art Directors

Yelena Zhukova
Natalia Kochergina

Costume Designers

Lidiya Kryukova
Tamara Seferyan
Maria Grishanova

Department Head Make-up Artists

Zhanna Rodionova
Lyudmila Kozinets

Light Concept

Anatoly Rodionov
Bernd Fischer
Björn-Yves Susen

Digital Imaging of the Picture

Sergey Ivanov

Da Vinci Colour Correction

Stefan Ciupek

Digital Effects, VFX Supervising

Betina Kuntzsch

Visual Effects

Patrick Wilfert
Stefan Kessher
Kay Woytke
Holger Knauer

Postproduction Manager KOPPMEDIA

Undine Simmang

Casting

Tatyana Komarova

First Assistant Director

Sergey Razhuk

Second Assistants Director

Elvira Krupina
Aleksander Maslov

Choreographer

Gali Abaidulov

Historical reconstruction
of Palace Ceremonies

Pavel Kornakov

Consultants

Pavel Kornakov
Peter Zaborov

Camera equipment
and additional Camera Equipment

Kopp Film
Cine Gate
Thielo & Peter

Light

Sergey Astakhov's
Shooting Equipment Agency

Sound Recording and Pre-Imaging

Studio Bereg (St. Petersburg, Russia)

Copyright © 2002
by Hermitage Bridge Studio,
and Egoli Tossell Film AG

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