Ward No. 6

Purchase Online Gala Screening *Followed by Russian Film Reception* Monday, January 11, 7:30 PM Camelot Theatres WARD1110 Tickets Not Available Date has passed. Thursday, January 14, 2:30 PM Palm Springs Regal 9 WARD1410 Tickets Not Available Date has passed.

Ward No. 6
Russia, 2009, 83 Minute Running Time
Topic: Drama
Program: Awards Buzz: Best Foreign Language Film
Language: Russian English Sub-Titles

This brilliant contemporary take on the oft-filmed Chekhov novella takes the story, about the head of a hospital whose fascination with a patient in the lunatic wing leads to his own incarceration there, and transposes it into the middle of a faux documentary.

Filmmaker expected to attend Jan.11 screening:  Director Karen Shakhnazarov

DIRECTOR: Karen Shakhnazarov
Producer: Karen Shakhnazarov
Editor: Irina Kozhemyakina
Screenwriter: Alexander Borodyansky, Karen Shakhnazarov
Cinematographer: Aleksandr Kuznetsov
Music: Evgeny Kadimsky
Principal Cast: Vladimir Ilyin, Alexey Vertkov, Evgeny Stychkin
Filmography: Vanished Empire (2008),The Rider Named Death (2004), Day of the Full Moon (1998), The Assassin of the Tsar (1991), The Messenger Boy (1987)

Sponsor:
Mosfilms

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