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Stunning! 300 years of Russian history in 90 minutes! An intense, beautiful, long, slow single fluid take—instead of a fast cut montage—pulls us in to experience Aleksandr Sokurov’s unique film, Russian Ark. Film as art doesn’t rise to a higher standard! Russian history is presented visually through the eye of one camera, in real time, in one take, with thousands of live actors and orchestral musicians in period costume on location in the historic Winter Palace in St. Petersburg. A visual feast unsurpassed! A technological marvel – the first feature shot in high definition, uncompressed video recorded entirely on hard drives powered by batteries. One continuous shot from beginning to end was all they had—there was no opportunity for a second take! And it worked!