A poetic essay on the city of St. Petersburg in the 18th century, based on poems by Alexander Pushkin and Alexander Blok and a novel by Andrey Belyi. The film contains reworked footage from Aleksey Batalov's "Overcoat", Eisenstein´s "Strike", Petrov's "Peter The First", Tikhomirov's "The Queen Of Spades" and others. Petersburg is an unbounded visual fantasy where reality and imagination merge into one. The history of the city represented in a digital form may live its independent life. Yevteyeva presents sights of St.Petersburg that have become the genetic code of the Russian culture in a particular manner in her film. Each shot of the film was hand-painted with special strokes.
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Aleksandr Cherednik
Алексей - лирический герой
Known for
Hard to Be a God
Svetlana Svirko
Наташа - жена Алексея
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Stalingrad
Father and Son
Irina Evteeva
Andrei Chernykh
Semyon Strugachyov
Александр Потопцев
Known for
The Master and Margarita
Peculiarities of the National Fishing
Yekaterina Petrenko
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Yuri Kravtsov
Irina Evteeva Director · Andrei Chernykh Writer Yuriy Kravtsov Writer
First release June 21, 2003 · Produced in Russia · Original title Петербург
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Lenfilm
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Russia
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Original title
Петербург
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · June 21, 2003
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