Cast and crew
Russian Ark (2002)
60 cast and 35 crew, as credited. Cast in billing order; crew by department.
Cast60
Sergey DreydenMarquis de Custine
Mariya KuznetsovaCatherine The Great
Leonid MozgovoyThe Spy- Mikhail PiotrovskyHermitage director
David GiorgobianiOrbeli
Aleksandr ChabanBoris Piotrovsky
Lev EliseevSelf- Oleg KhmelnitskySelf
Alla OsipenkoSelf- Artyom Strelnikovtalented boy
- Tamara Kurenkovablind woman
Maksim SergeyevPeter the Great- Natalya NikulenkoCatherine the Great
- Elena RufanovaFirst Lady
- Elena KramerSecond Lady
- Konstantin AnisimovFirst Cavalier
- Aleksey BarabashSecond Cavalier
- Ilya ShakunovThird Cavalier
- Aleksandr KulikovFourth Cavalier
- Anna AleksakhinaAlexandra Feodorovna - wife of Nicholas II
- Vladimir BaranovNicholas II
- Anna AntonelliPrincess Anastasia
- Valentin BukinMilitary Official
- Svetlana GaytanMuseum Custodian
- Vadim GushchinGrandee of Catherine the Great
- Kirill DateshidzeMaster of Ceremonies
- Mikhail DorofeevFirst Card Player
- Valentina EgorenkovaMaid of Honor of Catherine the Great
- Oleg EfremovMuseum Official
- Sergei LosevCourt Official
- Vadim LobanovLord Chamberlain
- Vladimir LisetskyCourt Minister
- Aleksandr MalnykinServant of Peter the Great
- Kirill MillerCourt Official
- Viktor MikhaylovCourt Official
- Sergey MuchenikovMuseum Official
- Sergey NadporozhskiyCourt Official
- Yuriy OrlovGrandee of Catherine the Great
- Aleksandr RazbashMuseum Official
- Boris SmolkinChancellor Nesselrode
- Evgeny FilatovSecond Card Player
- Yuri KhomutyanskyInsane Italian
- Anatoliy ShvederskiyMarshall
- Valery GergievConductor
- Igor VolkovAmbassador
- Svetlana SvirkoAlexandra Feodorovna - wife of Nicholas I
- Konstantin MukhinThe Counterman
- Sasha DurpfenMarie Sinclair
- Yuriy Ageykin—
- Alexandr Andreev—
- Dmitri Alexandrov—
- Alexander Alexeev—
- Andrey Arshinnikov—
- Ismat Ashurov—
- Artashes Aleksanyan—
- Dmitri Bekoyev—
- Oleg Palmov—
- Aleksandr Tsybulsky—
- Aleksandr Petrov—
- Serhii Romaniuk—
Crew35
Directing
- Alexander SokurovDirector
- Leda SemyonovaScript Supervisor
- Marina KorenevaAssistant Director
Writing
- Alexander SokurovWriter, Dialogue
- Anatoli NikiforovWriter
- Svetlana ProskurinaDialogue
- Boris KhaimskyDialogue
Production
- Oliver DamianProducer
- John HamiltonProducer
- Alla VerlotskyProducer
- Andrew ColtonProducer
- Vladimir PlyatskovskyProducer
- Andrey DeryabinProducer
- Jens MeurerProducer
- Karsten StöterProducer
- Tatyana KomarovaCasting Director
Camera
- Tilman BüttnerDirector of Photography, Steadicam Operator
- Stefan CiupekCamera Supervisor
- Anatoliy RodionovAdditional Director of Photography
- Bernd FischerAdditional Director of Photography
Editing
- Sergey IvanovEditor
- Stefan CiupekEditor
- Betina KuntzschEditor
Sound and music
- Sergei YevtushenkoOriginal Music Composer
- Vladimir PersovSound
- Edgar FignerFoley
- Manfred ArbterSound Re-Recording Mixer
- Sergey FignerFoley
- Sergey MoshkovSound
Art
- Elena ZhukovaArt Direction
- Natalya KocherginaArt Direction
Costume and make-up
- Tamara SeferyanCostume Design
- Maria GrishanovaCostume Design
- Lidiya KryukovaCostume Design
Visual effects
- Kai WoytkeDigital Compositor