Остров

Остров (2006)

Somewhere in Northern Russia in a small Russian Orthodox monastery lives an unusual man whose bizarre conduct confuses his fellow monks, while others who visit the island believe that the man has the power to heal, exorcise demons and foretell the future.

Data de estreia
2006-11-23
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (176)
Duração
1 h 52 min
Géneros
Drama, Comédia
Realizador
Павел Лунгин

Elenco

Curiosidades

  • Prémios: 3 · Nomeações: 2. Incluindo: Nika award for the best cinematography; Nika Award for Best Picture; Golden Eagle Award for Best Motion Picture

The Island is a 2006 Russian comedy-drama film directed by Pavel Lungin and written by Dmitry Sobolev. The film stars Pyotr Mamonov as a fictional 20th-century Eastern Orthodox monk.

Filming

The script of the film was written by Dmitry Sobolev, a graduate of Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, and this script became his thesis. As the screenwriter noted: "I had a period in my life when I was reading theological literature, trying to understand something for myself. In principle, this is the second scenario related to Orthodoxy. In the first scenario, there was an Orthodox priest.

The film group took a long time to choose a place for filming the "Island". There were four expeditions: the film crew traveled through the Murmansk Oblast, visited Ladoga, Onega, Kizhi, and the Pskov lakes. None of the monasteries situated in those places suited the director, as he needed "a small, abandoned hermitage, and all modern monasteries are huge, walled towns." During the fifth trip, nature was found — it was the outskirts of the small…

According to Pavel Lungin, the main actor Pyotr Mamonov "played himself to a large extent." Before starting work in the film, the actor received a blessing from his confessor. In addition, Hieromonk Cosmas (Afanasyev), a resident of the Donskoy Monastery, was with the film crew as a consultant, who was invited by Mamonov. Before becoming a monk, he was an actor himself, and was an extra in Lungin's movie Taxi Blues.

The film crew had to shoot quickly. It was necessary to finish filming before the White Sea was covered with ice. Filming began in October and ended in early December 2005. According to Hieromonk Cosmas: "they began to take pictures, and slowly, just like a puzzle began to take shape. There, in the north, the nature is amazing: such a scale, silence, concentration.

In 2007, director Pavel Lungin said about the filming process: "We lived ... on the outskirts of a working village in a small empty hotel. There is a pier where ships leave for the Solovetsky Islands. In winter, of course, they no longer walked. From there, prisoners were sent to camps at one time.

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