Published. The Second Circle. This film opens Sokurov's trilogy that includes Krug Vtoroy (The Second Circle), Kamen (The Stone) and Tikhiye Stranitsy (Whispering Pages). A man tries to come to terms with his father's death and to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society cut off from spirituality. What, if anything, does Aleksandr Sokurov’s Krug vtoroy have to do with Dante’s second circle of Hell, to which those who lusted, such as Francesca and her brother-in-law, are consigned? Synopsis. April 3, 2006. Review: The Second Circle. Director. Fernando F. Croce. By. 1990 ‘Круг второй’ Directed by Aleksandr Sokurov. The father was a prison-camp guard, and it’s been suggested that the plot can be read as a parable about Russia before and after glasnost. Alexander Sokurov’s 1990 Russian feature, in which a young man from Leningrad arrives in a Siberian village to deal with the local bureaucracy and dispose of his father’s corpse. on.
Share; Tweet; P urgatory to Aleksandr Sokurov is spiritual disconnection, and The Second Circle opens with an image of overwhelming desolation—a long shot of a man caught in a harsh Arctic blizzard, the tiny figure crouching by the side of the road as the storm turns the screen deathly white. This film opens Sokurov's trilogy that includes Krug Vtoroy (The Second Circle), Kamen (The Stone) and Tikhiye Stranitsy (Whispering Pages). Posted February 1, 1994. Pyotr Aleksandrov Nadezhda Rodnova Tamara Timofeeva Aleksandr Bystryakov Sergey Vybornov Nikolay Butenin. This film opens Sokurov's trilogy that includes Krug Vtoroy (The Second Circle), Kamen (The Stone) and Tikhiye Stranitsy (Whispering Pages). The Second Circle. A brief comment on Aleksandr Sokurov's SECOND CIRCLE (1990), relating its anti-naturalistic style to the spectator's longing for an aesthetic or ritual solution to the problem of death. The difference of course, is that in Mother and Son the mother only dies at the end (although Sokurov likes to leave … Expertly pitched between absurdity and elegy, allegory and social critique, The Second Circle is an "uncompromising, imagistic, masterly work," (New York Times). Cast; Crew; Details; Genre; Cast. Faust je ruski igrani film snimljen na njemačkom jeziku 2011. godine u režiji Aleksandra Sokurova.Inspiriran je legendom o Doktoru Faustu, a po žanru je drama.Naslovni protagonist, čiji lik tumači Johannes Zeiler je naučnik koji početkom 19. vijeka postaje opsjednut pronalaženjem duše, a koji se tokom svog istraživanja sprijatelji sa lokalnim lihvarom (čiji lik tumači Anton Adasinski). The Second Circle is a 1990 drama film written by Yuri Arabov and directed by Aleksandr Sokurov. 14 years ago. by grunes. In the 1990 film The Second Circle, Russian director Aleksandr Sokurov (Russian Ark, Mother And Son) solidified his reputation as "a master of controlling mood" (NY Newsday). In The Second Circle a young man returns home to tend to his father’s funeral and spends most of the film’s time in a room with his dead father’s corpse. Regardless, the film is visually transparent, with its color repressed almost to the point of monochrome. Aleksandr Sokurov Celebrity Profile - Check out the latest Aleksandr Sokurov photo gallery, biography, pics, pictures, interviews, news, forums and blogs at Rotten Tomatoes!