Oriental Elegy
A surreal journey of a displaced spirit as he wanders in the interminable darkness through the temporal landscape of a quaint and isolated feudal-era fishing village. Guided by a series of faintly illuminated rooms, the wandering spirit comes upon ancient souls who take on physical forms as they recount their personal stories of daily existence, loss, and tragedy in the peasant community. Intrigued by his initial visit to a curiously distracted elderly woman, the spirit returns to her home in order to ask a fundamental question - "What is happiness?" - an existential query that is innocently answered with innate humility and accepted unknowingness.
Oriental Elegy
April 26, 1996
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Cast (1)
Aleksandr Sokurov
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Crew (4)
Directing
Aleksandr Sokurov
Director
Writing
Aleksandr Sokurov
Writer
Production
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Vera Zelinskaya
Production Design
Camera
Alexey Fedorov
Director of Photography