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Whispering Pages, also transliterated as Tikhiye Stranitsy (Russian: Тихие страницы), is a 1994 Russian film directed by Alexander Sokurov. The film was a Russian-German co-production.

Plot

A man wanders slowly through the catacombs of a wrecked city, passing by ruins, listless denizens milling about, unruly mobs, and acts of mass suicide. He agrees to do some paperwork to move a dead body, but the bureaucrat who manages the forms ensnares him in Kafkaesque questions. He admits, perhaps not honestly, to a murder, and confronts a prostitute about sin, shame, and God. At the end of the film, he sits down under the statue of a lion and then disappears.

Reception

The film has won acclaim from The New York Times, Variety, the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Reader.

Cast

• Alexander Cherednik - wanderer
• Elizaveta Korolyova - prostitute
• Sergei Barkovsky [ru] - bureaucrat

References

1. Whispering Pages at Allmovie
2. New York Times review
3. "Whispering Pages". Variety. 1994-07-25. Archived from the original on 2023-05-06.
4. Chicago Tribune review
5. Chicago Reader review

External links

• Tikhie stranitsy at IMDb

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