The Island | |
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Russian | Остров |
Directed by | Pavel Lungin |
Written by | Dmitry Sobolev |
Produced by | Pavel Lungin Sergei Shumakov Olga Vasilieva |
Starring | Pyotr Mamonov Viktor Sukhorukov Dmitri Dyuzhev |
Cinematography | Andrei Zhegalov |
Edited by | Albina Altipenko |
Music by | Vladimir Martynov |
Production company | Pavel Lungin Studio |
Distributed by | Nashe Kino |
Release dates | |
Running time | 112 minutes |
Country | Russia |
Languages | Russian German |
Box office | US$3.6 million |
The Island (Russian: Остров, romanized: Ostrov) is a 2006 Russian comedy-drama film directed by Pavel Lungin and written by Dmitry Sobolev. The film stars Pyotr Mamonov as a fictional 20th-century Eastern Orthodox monk.
Filming took place in the city of Kem, in Karelia, on the shores of the White Sea.[1] The film closed the 2006 Venice Film Festival, proved to be a moderate box-office success and won both the Nika Award and the China TV Golden Eagle Award as the Best Russian film of 2006. It received generally positive reviews from critics.