Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- Russian
- Country
- Russia, Germany
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- In Russian — subtitles on.
The story
A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.
- museum
- time travel
- st. petersburg
- russia
- russian history
- one take
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill

Sergey Dreyden
Marquis de Custine

Mariya Kuznetsova
Catherine The Great

Leonid Mozgovoy
The Spy
Mikhail Piotrovsky
Hermitage director
- Edisher (Davit) Giorgobiani — Orbeli
- Aleksandr Chaban — Boris Piotrovsky
- Lev Eliseev — Self
- Oleg Khmelnitsky — Self
- Alla Osipenko — Self
- Artyom Strelnikov — talented boy
- Tamara Kurenkova — blind woman
- Maxim Sergeev — Peter the Great
- Natalya Nikulenko — Catherine the Great
- Elena Rufanova — First Lady
- Elena Kramer — Second Lady
- Directed
- Aleksandr Sokurov
- Written
- Anatoly Nikiforov, Aleksandr Sokurov
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 511 ratings
- Studio
- The State Hermitage Museum, The Hermitage Bridge Studio, Egoli Tossell Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.










