Timur BEKMAMBETOV
Тимур БЕКМАМБЕТОВ
Timour BEKMAMBETOV
Russia, 2005, 140mn 
Colour, fiction
Day watch
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Дневной дозор

 

 Les Gardiens de jour

 Dnevnoy dozor

 
Directed by : Timur BEKMAMBETOV (Тимур БЕКМАМБЕТОВ)
Writing credits : Timur BEKMAMBETOV (Тимур БЕКМАМБЕТОВ), Sergey LUKIANENKO (Сергей ЛУКЬЯНЕНКО), Aleksandr TALPA (Александр ТАЛПА)
 
Cast
Aleksey CHADOV (Алексей ЧАДОВ) ...Kostia 
Zhanna FRISKE (Жанна ФРИСКЕ) ...Alissa
Konstantin KHABENSKY (Константин ХАБЕНСКИЙ) ...Anton Gorodetski 
Gosha KUTSENKO (Гоша КУЦЕНКО) ...Ignat 
Sergey LUKIANENKO (Сергей ЛУКЬЯНЕНКО) ...mage Rouslan  
Aleksey MAKLAKOV (Алексей МАКЛАКОВ) ...Semion 
Dima MARTYNOV (Дима МАРТЫНОВ) ...Egor 
Vladimir MENSHOV (Владимир МЕНЬШОВ) ...Guesser 
Mariya MIRONOVA (Мария МИРОНОВА) ... mère d'Egor
Nikolay OLIALIN (Николай ОЛЯЛИН) ...inquisiteur 
Mariya POROSHINA (Мария ПОРОШИНА) ...Svetlana 
Sergey SHNUROV (Сергей ШНУРОВ)
Anna SLYU (Анна СЛЮ)
Galina TIUNINA (Галина ТЮНИНА) ...Olga
Artemi TROITSKY (Артемий ТРОИЦКИЙ)
Viktor VERZHBITSKY (Виктор ВЕРЖБИЦКИЙ) ...Zavoulon 
Valery ZOLOTUKHIN (Валерий ЗОЛОТУХИН) ...Vampire, père de Kostia 
 
Cinematography : Sergey TROFIMOV (Сергей ТРОФИМОВ)
Production design : Mukhtar MIRZAKEYEV (Мухтар МИРЗАКЕЕВ), Nikolay RIABTSEV (Николай РЯБЦЕВ), Valery VIKTOROV (Валерий ВИКТОРОВ)
Music : Yuri POTEYENKO (Юрий ПОТЕЕНКО)
Editing : Dmitry KISELEV (Дмитрий КИСЕЛЕВ)
Produced by : Konstantin ERNST (Константин ЭРНСТ), Anatoli MAKSIMOV (Анатолий МАКСИМОВ)
Production : Tabbak / Bazelevs-production / Première Chaîne
Film revenue in Russia : 31.97 million dollars
Release date in Russia : 01/01/2006
 
format : 35 mm
Site : www.geminifilm.ru/movie.asp?id=230 et www.dozorfilm.ru/
Release date in France : 2008-01-23, Site

Plot synopsis
Blockbuster.
A young woman is killed at night on the staircase of her house. No traces of violence can be found on the body Ö The shaky balance between Light and Dark is upset, and the scales incline towards the dark side. But the dead woman is a ìdark oneî, which means that suspicion falls on the light side. Gesser urgently puts together a special unit: the charge of murder is a serious problem. He is obliged to react. Above all, he must understand who was where doing what at the time in question. It transpires that only Anton Gorodetsky has no alibi.
Leader of Russian distribution, box office: $34.5 million (as of 17.02.2006).
Source : www.kinotavr.ru
 

Commentaries and bibliography
C Константином Эрнстом беседует редакция «Сеанса», Group of authors, seance.ru, 2006
Вальс-дозор, Dmitry BYKOV, seance.ru, 2006
Timur Bekmambetov : Day Watch (Dnevnoi dozor, 2006), Viktor MATIZEN, kinokultura.com, 2006
 

Selected in the following festivals or events :
- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2011
- Release in France of the film, Different cities (France), 2008-01-23
- Russian film festival in Sweden 'KinoRiurik', Stockholm (Sweden), 2008
- Melbourne International Film Festival - MIFF, Melbourne (Australia), 2007
- Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Karlovy Vary (Czech Republic), 2007
- Copenhagen International Film Festival / CPH PIX, Copenhagen (Denmark), 2007
- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2007
- Berlin International Film Festival : Berlinale, Berlin (Germany), 2007
- Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2007
- Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh (United Kingdom), 2007
- Strasbourg two weeks of Russian cinema, Strasbourg (France), 2006

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