Elegy of a Voyage (2009)

7.4/10 47 min Documentary

Overview

This intimately narrated journey from Russia to Rotterdam, via rail, road and Finnish ferry, is a melancholy meditation on divinity, time and place in art, purpose (or its lack) and the loneliness of the soul. Passing through misty snowscapes, half-glimpsed cities and the icy night sea-swell.

Cast

Aleksandr Sokurov

The Traveler (uncredited)

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