WARD NO. 6 (RUSSIA 2009, 83 MINS, 0-13M, SUBTITLES)
Russia’s Official Entry for the 82nd Academy Awards!
Australian Film Critics Award for Best Film!
Winner Best Actor Award at the Moscow IFF 2009!
Official Selection at Pusan, Hamburg, Helsinki, Jerusalem, Montreal, Sao Paolo & other International Film Festivals, 2009!
Vladimir Ilyin, Alexey Vertkov & others in a film, updated from a story by Anton Chekhov, & directed by Karen Shakhnazarov.
The film is a screen version of the mysterious, paradoxical & disturbing story by Chekhov. It is based on a real life incident & centres around the head doctor of an asylum who winds up as an asylum patient. Lonely & estranged, Doctor Ragin is one of the focal characters in the work of Chekhov. The screenplay is an adaptation of Chekhov’s story. Preserving the story-line the screenwriters, Alexander Borodyansky & Karen Shakhnazarov, deliberately move the action into the present. Shooting of the film was done in a real asylum, in a novel semi-documentary manner.
“The director’s most iconoclastic film yet … he deconstructs Chekhov to dazzling effect.” VARIETY, USA
"Absorbing ... well worth seeing." Cape Argus
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