Karen SHAKHNAZAROV Карен ШАХНАЗАРОВ Karen CHAKHNAZAROV   Russia, 2009, 83 mn  Colour, fiction

Ward N°6 ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ ▪ Палата №6    Salle N°6 - Tchékhov  Palata N°6

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Plot synopsis

The story is based on a real life incident and centers around the head doctor of an asylum who winds up as the asylum patient. Lonely, estranged, reflecting Doctor Andrey Ragin is one of the focal characters in the work of Chekhov and the entire world literature of the 20th century.
The screenplay is an adaptation of Chekhov’s story. Preserving the story-line the authors deliberately move the scene into the present.

 

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Commentaries and bibliography

Karen Shakhnazarov : Ward No. 6 (Palata No. 6, 2009), José ALANIZ, kinokultura.com, 2010

Karen Shakhnazarov : Ward No. 6 (Palata No. 6, 2009) (2), Lars KRISTENSEN, kinokultura.com, 2010

 

Shooting of the film was done in a real asylum, in a novel semi-documentary manner.
The screenplay of “Ward No. 6” was written in 1988 by Karen Shakhnazarov and Alexander Borodyansky, but the project was stopped due to difference of opinions with the Italian producers.
Marcello Mastroianni was to act Andrey Ragin.
The main scenes of the film were shot in the functioning mental home located in ancient Nikolo-Poshehonsky monastery in the vicinity of Moscow.
The film was shot in record time: from the November 5th to the December 2nd, 2008.
Source : mosfilm.ru

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Selected in the following festivals :

- Internet-festival "Rossiskaya Gazeta" Dubl DV@, Different cities (Russia), 2013

- Cinéma russe avec Cannes-Cinéma au Miramar, Cannes (France), 2012

- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2012

- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2011

- Yerevan International Film Festival "Golden Apricot", Yerevan (Armenia), 2010

- International Film Festival "Love is Folly", Varna (Bulgaria), 2010

- Sofia International Film Festival, Sofia (Bulgaria), 2010

- Shangai International Film Festival, Shangai (China), 2010

- Aye Aye Film Festival Nancy-Lorraine, Nancy (France), 2010

- Strasbourg two weeks of Russian cinema, Strasbourg (France), 2010

- Paris Russian Film Festival, Paris (France), 2010

- Rencontres de cinéma européen, Vannes (France), 2010

- Release in France of the film, Different cities (France), 2010-05-05

- Russian Film Festival, Orléans (France), 2010

- Nantes Russian Film Festival ''Univerciné'', Nantes (France), 2010

- The Dublin International Film Festival, Dublin (Ireland), 2010

- Tromso International Film Festival : TIFF, Tromso (Norway), 2010

- Oporto International Film Festival, Porto (Portugal), 2010

- Festival "Vivat Kino Rossii", St Petersburg (Russia), 2010

- Festival ''Cinema and literature'', Gatchina (Russia), 2010

- International Film Festival Tarkovski, Ivanovo (Russia), 2010

- Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2010

- Belgrade International Film Festival, Belgrade (Serbia), 2010

- Russian film festival in Sweden 'KinoRiurik', Stockholm (Sweden), 2010

- Fribourg International Film Festival, Fribourg (Switzerland), 2010

- Days of the russian cinema in Tunisia, Tunis / Sousse / Hammamet (Tunisia), 2010

- Clevelant International Film Festival, Cleveland (USA), 2010

- Palm Springs International Film Festival, Palm Springs (USA), 2010

- Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Different cities (Australia), 2009

- Sao Paulo International Film Festival, Sao Paulo (Brazil ), 2009

- World Film Festival, Montreal (Canada), 2009

- Cairo International Film Festival, Cairo (Egypt), 2009

- Helsinki International Film Festival, Helsinki (Finland), 2009

- Russian Film Week in Paris : Regards de Russie, Paris (France), 2009

- Honfleur Russian Film Festival, Honfleur (France), 2009

- Le Septième Art a une histoire. Cinéma russe, un week-end d'inédits, Nice (France), 2009

- Russische Filmwoche in Berlin, Berlin (Germany), 2009

- Jerusalem International Film Festival, Jerusalem (Israel), 2009

- Busan International Film Festival : BIFF, Busan (Pusan) (Korea, South), 2009

- Russian Film Festival, Riga (Latvia), 2009

- Festival of New Russian Films, Vilnius (Lithuania), 2009

- "Go Russia". Focus on New Russian Cinema, Luxembourg (Luxembourg), 2009

- Sputnik nad Polska, Warsaw (Poland), 2009

- Days of Russian Film in Bucharest, Bucharest (Romania), 2009

- Festival Russian kino 'Moscow Premier Screenings', Moscow (Russia), 2009

- "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2009

- Window to Europe Film Festival, Vyborg, Vyborg (Russia), 2009

- Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2009

- International Human Rights Film Festival, Moscow (Russia), 2009

- Cinema and Theater Festival ''Autumn of Love'', Blagoveshchensk (Russia), 2009

- Damascus International Film Festival, Damascus (Syria), 2009

- Russian Film Festival, London (United Kingdom), 2009

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Film with English and French subtitles : Click here

 

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