Russian Ark (2002)
Русский ковчег
Drama, Fantasy, History • 1h 39m
Overview
A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Cast: Sergey Dreyden, Mariya Kuznetsova, Leonid Mozgovoy, Mikhail Piotrovsky, Edisher (Davit) Giorgobiani, Aleksandr Chaban, Lev Eliseev, Oleg Khmelnitsky, Alla Osipenko, Artyom Strelnikov, Tamara Kurenkova, Maxim Sergeev, Natalya Nikulenko, Elena Rufanova, Elena Kramer, Konstantin Anisimov, Aleksey Barabash, Ilya Shakunov, Aleksandr Kulikov, Anna Aleksakhina, Vladimir Baranov, Anna Antonelli, Valentin Bukin, Svetlana Gaytan, Vadim Gushchin, Kirill Dateshidze, Mikhail Dorofeev, Valentina Egorenkova, Oleg Efremov, Sergei Losev, Vadim Lobanov, Vladimir Lisetsky, Aleksandr Malnykin, Kirill Miller, Viktor Mikhaylov, Sergey Muchenikov, Sergey Nadporozhskiy, Yuriy Orlov, Aleksandr Razbash, Boris Smolkin, Evgeny Filatov, Yuri Khomutyansky, Anatoliy Shvederskiy, Valery Gergiev, Igor Volkov, Svetlana Svirko, Konstantin Mukhin, Sasha Durpfen, Yuriy Ageykin, Alexandr Andreev, Dmitri Alexandrov, Alexander Alexeev, Andrey Arshinnikov, Ismat Ashurov, Artashes Aleksanyan, Dmitri Bekoyev, Oleg Palmov, Aleksandr Tsybulsky, Serhii Romaniuk, Nikolay Gravshin, Konstantin Demidov, Anatoly Dubanov, Aleksey Emelyanov, Dmitriy Zebrov, Yefim Ioffe, Olga Kalmykova, Valentina Kasyanova, Yuriy Kalugin, Valeri Kozinets, Aleksei Krymov, Igor Okrepilov, Irina Osnovina, Valeri Smolyakov, Boris Sokolov, Nikolay Fedortsov, Valeriy Filonov, Darya Khudyakova, Vladimir Chernyshov, Andrey Shchepochkin, Anya Antonelly, Egor Bakulin, Olga Belyavskaya, Mark Gavrilov, Yekaterina Gorokhovskaya, Anna Ekaterininskaya, Sergey Yelikov, Aleksandra Kulikova, Nataliya Kadochnikova, Mariya Lavrova, Maria Mescheryakova, Artur Mkrtchyan, Aleksey Oding, Alla Oding, Kirill Petrov, Rodion Prikhodko, Andrey Rodimov, Yuliya Rudina, Elena Simonova, Kirill Ulyanov, Aleksey Fedkin, Boris Khasanov, Rosina Tsidulko, Yuliya Shubareva, Svetlana Nemirovskaya, Vsevolod Tsurilo, Nataliya Tarynycheva, Khelga Filippova, Vyacheslav Manucharov, Elena Savelieva, Anna Dyukova, Igor Besschastnov, Aleksey Vasilev, Mikhail Terentyev, Mikhail Sharautin, Sergey Peregudov, Yuliya Gorshenina, Gali Abaydulov, Roman Rolbin, Pavel Kornakov, Aleksandr Karpov, Vladimir Belovolsky, Alexander Balonin, Galina Burkina, Eyyup Can Ulas, Aleksandr Sokurov, Svetlana Smirnova, Oleg Losev, Philipp Baron, Vladimir Sevostyanikhin, Yulian Makarov
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
Director: Rob Reiner
UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray release date September 21 2026
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray or Germany Capelight 4K Blu-ray no comparison available
Shout! Factory Blu-ray has exclusive extras the Kino Lorber/ Capelight release doesn't
The initial release of the Capelight 4K mediabook had some playback issues with Dolby Vision on Panasonic devices due to an encoding error, the HDR10 apparently works fine, see Capelight’s official response here.
Director: Rob Reiner
UK Arrow 4K Blu-ray release date September 21 2026
Kino Lorber 4K Blu-ray or Germany Capelight 4K Blu-ray no comparison available
Shout! Factory Blu-ray has exclusive extras the Kino Lorber/ Capelight release doesn't
The initial release of the Capelight 4K mediabook had some playback issues with Dolby Vision on Panasonic devices due to an encoding error, the HDR10 apparently works fine, see Capelight’s official response here.
Director: Lou Breslow
Kino Lorber Blu-ray 2K restoration
Director: Lou Breslow
Kino Lorber Blu-ray 2K restoration
Director: Howard Hughes
Kino Lorber Blu-ray 2K restoration
Director: Howard Hughes
Kino Lorber Blu-ray 2K restoration
Director: Stuart Heisler
Kino Lorber Blu-ray 2K restoration
Director: Stuart Heisler
Kino Lorber Blu-ray 2K restoration
Indicator Blu-ray > Kino Lorber see DVDBeaver
Indicator is using a different restoration from earlier Kino Lorber Blu-ray and it has much better contrast and slightly better grain resolution
Indicator Blu-ray > Kino Lorber see DVDBeaver
Indicator is using a different restoration from earlier Kino Lorber Blu-ray and it has much better contrast and slightly better grain resolution
Director: Frank Borzage
While Indicator Blu-ray used a newer 4K restoration from 2022 instead of the older 2K restoration, Kino Lorber has the original aspect ratio, and the Indicator Blu-ray looks very soft in comparison see comparison
Director: Frank Borzage
While Indicator Blu-ray used a newer 4K restoration from 2022 instead of the older 2K restoration, Kino Lorber has the original aspect ratio, and the Indicator Blu-ray looks very soft in comparison see comparison
Kino Lorber Blu-ray, new 2K master
No caps available for French Elephant Films Blu-ray
Kino Lorber Blu-ray, new 2K master
No caps available for French Elephant Films Blu-ray
Director: Billy Wilder
Criterion 4K Blu-ray > Capelight/Kino Lorber which has heavy noise reduction and opening snare hit is missing, Capelight is slightly better encoded than Kino Lorber
Director: Billy Wilder
Criterion 4K Blu-ray > Capelight/Kino Lorber which has heavy noise reduction and opening snare hit is missing, Capelight is slightly better encoded than Kino Lorber
Criterion 4K Blu-ray scheduled for October 2026 release
1991 Orion LaserDisc vs 2024 Arrow 4K Blu-ray
Criterion 4K Blu-ray scheduled for October 2026 release
1991 Orion LaserDisc vs 2024 Arrow 4K Blu-ray
More Drama on Blu-ray
Director: George Roy Hill
Director: George Roy Hill
Director: Robert Wise
Disney 4K Blu-ray, see caps https://slow.pics/c/hE3HUCdj
Disney 4K Atmos is great, a reference quality track. It's a very slight remix (music seems to be from a better source), but it's completely seamless and faithful to the original, better fidelity than anything since the 1994 30th Anniversary Edition LaserDisc.
All DVDs (and 2010 Blu-ray) sound far worse than the 4K Blu-ray/LaserDisc and have various missing sound cues.
Director: Robert Wise
Disney 4K Blu-ray, see caps https://slow.pics/c/hE3HUCdj
Disney 4K Atmos is great, a reference quality track. It's a very slight remix (music seems to be from a better source), but it's completely seamless and faithful to the original, better fidelity than anything since the 1994 30th Anniversary Edition LaserDisc.
All DVDs (and 2010 Blu-ray) sound far worse than the 4K Blu-ray/LaserDisc and have various missing sound cues.
Director: S. S. Rajamouli
Zee5 Streaming has the original Telugu audio and English subtitles (albeit with English portions also overdubbed in Telugu)
Netflix Streaming only has the Hindi dub but better video quality
France Carlotta 4K Blu-ray coming in December
Japan Twin Co. 4K Blu-ray
Japan Twin Co. 4K Blu-ray has original Telugu Atmos audio
Director: S. S. Rajamouli
Zee5 Streaming has the original Telugu audio and English subtitles (albeit with English portions also overdubbed in Telugu)
Netflix Streaming only has the Hindi dub but better video quality
France Carlotta 4K Blu-ray coming in December
Japan Twin Co. 4K Blu-ray
Japan Twin Co. 4K Blu-ray has original Telugu Atmos audio
Director: Ivan Passer
Radiance 4K Blu-ray, though note its different color grading from the IP-sourced but poorly compressed Fun City Editions US Blu-ray (caps)
Judging from spectrograms at https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=23933756&postcount=57, Fun City Editions US Blu-ray appears to have marginally less filtering than Radiance 4K Blu-ray (whose padded 16-bit depth is a non-issue). There are also loudness differences, though it's unclear whether dynamic range also differs. Caveat: need to A/B both tracks to confirm, but no one has posted actual A/B impressions.
Director: Ivan Passer
Radiance 4K Blu-ray, though note its different color grading from the IP-sourced but poorly compressed Fun City Editions US Blu-ray (caps)
Judging from spectrograms at https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=23933756&postcount=57, Fun City Editions US Blu-ray appears to have marginally less filtering than Radiance 4K Blu-ray (whose padded 16-bit depth is a non-issue). There are also loudness differences, though it's unclear whether dynamic range also differs. Caveat: need to A/B both tracks to confirm, but no one has posted actual A/B impressions.
Director: Joe Wright
Director: Joe Wright
Director: Rob Reiner
Director: Rob Reiner
Director: Noah Baumbach
Director: Noah Baumbach
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