Sokurov will shoot a film about the Louvre

27.12.2011

It was learned that the leadership of the Louvre turned to Alexander Sokurov with a proposal to make a film about museum collections, by analogy with what was filmed in 2002 at the Hermitage (film "Russian Ark"). Details of the new film reveals the producer Andrey Sigle: "The French will be Alexander II project. Louvre appealed to him to make a film similar to what was filmed at the Hermitage. He has the ideas, now the project is in exploring. " Recall that the film "Russian Ark" won the award for visual solution for the international film festival in Toronto. Design feature is that it was filmed in one double and one and a half hours, with a combined gaming, documentaries and music scenes. For a long time tape remained the most cash of Russian painting in the foreign box office and raised $ 6 million.