Whispering Pages

★★★★★

Original title: Tikhie stranitsy

1994 · 1 h 17 min

Directed by Aleksandr Sokurov · Russia / USSR · Soviet Poetic Cinema

Drama

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Cast

Aleksandr Cherednik Elizaveta Koroleva Sergey Barkovskiy Galina Nikulina Olga Onishchenko S. Toropov

Credits

Written by: Yuriy Arabov

Plot

An anonymous man wanders through decomposing, fog-enshrouded catacombs and encounters a series of “the degraded and the humiliated,” including a holy prostitute and a Kafkaesque bureaucrat.

Sinekatalog’s take

Whispering Pages (1994) is a Russian drama directed by Aleksandr Sokurov. It stars Aleksandr Cherednik, Elizaveta Koroleva and Sergey Barkovskiy. It runs 77 minutes. It is listed here for its festival and awards record.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

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Ratings

IMDb: 6.9 / 10 (719 votes)
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