Russian Cinema Today 2009 / Director: Aleksandr Gornovsky,Karen Shakhnazarov
Ward no.6
The film is a screen version of the mysterious paradoxical and disturbing story by Chekhov, which can be in all justice called the most pessimistic and also the most life-asserting work of the author.
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.
Shooting of the fi lm was done in a real asylum, in a novel semi-documentary manner.
– PRODUCTION NOTES
Russia (2009)
Duration: 83 min
Dialogue: Russian
Subtitles: English
Duration: 83 min
Dialogue: Russian
Subtitles: English
