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Sokurov’s film Russian Ark (Russkii kovcheg, 2003) occupies a special place among the director’s works. Whereas his earlier films were distinguished by the minimalism of their plot and movement,1 this is an opulent work, full of dynamics and vibrant with colour. On account of its innovative technique aspects, Russian Ark was celebrated as a cinematic milestone. Consequently, the complex content of the film is often forgotten.
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S. Hänsgen, ‘Stille Bilder. Zur Minimierung des Filmischen bei Aleksandr Sokurov (Film>Photo>Malerei)’ [Minimizing the Cinematic in Alexander Sokurov’s Work (Film>Photography>Art)], in M. Goller and G. Witte (eds), Minimalismus. Zwischen Leere und Exzeß [Minimalism. Between Void and Excess] (Vienna: Gesellschaft zur Förderung slawistischer Studien, 2001 ), pp. 375–90.
See also E. Binder, ‘Begegnung–Wahrnehmung–Überblendung. Russland und Europa im Film „Russian ark“ von A. Sokurov’ [Encounter–Perception– Superimposition. Russia and Europe in A. Sokurov’s Film ‘Russian Ark’], in C. Engel and R. Lewicki (eds), Interkulturalität: Slawistische Fallstudien [Interculturality: Slavonic Case Studies] (Innsbruck: Slavica Aenipontana, 2005), pp. 183–201 (p. 183 ).
E. Carels, ‘The Solitary Voice: an Interview with Aleksandr Sokorov [sic]’, Film Studies: an International Review, 1 (1999), 73.
A. Tuchinskaya, ‘Interview with Alexander Sokurov’, http://www.sokurov.spb.ru/island_en/feature_films/russkyi_kovcheg/mnp_ark.html (28 January 2005).
G. Stökl, Russische Geschichte. Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart [Russian History. From the Beginning to the Present Time] (Stuttgart: Kröner, 1983), pp. 476–507, especially p. 476.
See M. Iampolski, ‘Kinematograf nesootvetstviia. Kairos i istoriia u Sokurova’ [Cinematography of Non-Correspondence. Kairos and History in Sokurov’s Work], Kinovedcheskie zapiski, LXIII (2003), 28–58, p. 48.
On this see O. Kovalov, ‘Russkii kontekst’ [The Russian Context], Iskusstvo kino, 7 (2003), 25–8.
B. Halligan, ‘The Remaining Second World: Sokurov and Russian Ark’, senses of cinema, 3 (2003), http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/03/25/ russian_ark.html (28 January 2005).
R. Wittram, Peter I. Czar und Kaiser [Peter I. Tsar and Emperor] (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1964), vol. 1, pp. 106–11 and vol. 2, p. 170.
A. Sokurov, ‘Refusal to Take Part in the Ceremony for the Awarding of Prizes by the EFA in December, 2002’, http://www.sokurov.spb.ru/island:en/ans_ 2.html (28 January 2005).
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de Keghel, I. (2008). Sokurov’s Russian Ark: Reflections on the Russia/Europe Theme. In: Hutchings, S. (eds) Russia and its Other(s) on Film. Studies in Central and Eastern Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230582781_5
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