Nochnoy dozor (Night Watch) (2004)

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I'm surprised no one has mentioned this critically acclaimed Russian film...

Tagline: All That Stands Between Light And Darkness Is The Night Watch.

Plot Outline: A fantasy-thriller set in present-day Moscow where the respective forces that control daytime and nighttime do battle.

Directed by
Timur Bekmambetov

Writing credits
Timur Bekmambetov (screenplay) and
Laeta Kalogridis (screenplay)

Sergei Lukyanenko (novel)

Cast
Konstantin Khabensky .... Anton Gorodetsky
Vladimir Menshov .... Geser
Valeri Zolotukhin .... Vampire, Kostya's father
Mariya Poroshina .... Svetlana
Galina Tyunina .... Olga, sorceress (owl)
Yuri Kutsenko .... Ignat (as Gosha Kutsenko)
Aleksei Chadov .... Kostya (Anton's young vampire neighbor)
Zhanna Friske .... Alisa Donnikova
Ilya Lagutenko .... Vampire Andrei
Viktor Verzhbitsky .... Zavulon
Rimma Markova .... Darya Schultz, witch
Mariya Mironova .... Yegor's mother
Aleksei Maklakov .... Semyon
Aleksandr Samojlenko .... Ilya, mage-transformer
Dmitry Martynov .... Yegor, Anton's son (as Dmitri Martynov)
Anna Slyusaryova .... Lena, mage-transformer (as Anna Slyu)
Anna Dubrovskaya .... Vampiress Larisa, Andrei's lover and initiate
Sergei Prikhodko
Georgy Dronov .... Tolyk
Igor Savochkin
Yegor Dronov
Nikolai Olyalin .... Inkvizitor
Dmitri Klokov
Dmitriy Klokov
Dmitri Osetrov
Dmitry Osetrov
Konstantin Murzenko .... Man in Metro
Anatoli Gorin
Lyudmila Aronova
Ludmila Yaronova
Aleksandr Shurok
Nikolai Kiselyov
Marina Ivanova
Viktor Ivanov
Polina Shchurok
Tatyana Shchankina
Aleksandr Kozlov
Igor Pismenny
Viktoriya Smirnova
Sergei Kalashnikov
Yekaterina Malikova
Vladislav Anufriyev
Yuri Yakovlev
Ivan Popov
Aleksei Kurochkin
Yaroslav Romashenko

Trailer: http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox_searchlight/night_watch/http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1688688/
 
Babe, did you crushed your lenses again :
http://www.chronicles-network.net/forum/showthread.php?t=7114&highlight=Night+watch

and http://www.chronicles-network.net/forum/showthread.php?t=7685&highlight=NightWatch

Quick review ? :
Leto said:
Just saw the movie. Quite complex, very high speed and with an interesting ending/cliffhanger.
But I think the sroty was rushed to keep into a film format, does anyone knows if the original books have been translated in English (or French), I don't feel like learning Russian just to read them.
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I saw this the other day and I echo Leto's comments that it was confusing in parts and certain sections seemed rushed with little relevance to the main plot.
A good visual movie, even if I didn't quite understand what was going on half the time! :)
 
i think it looks good its part of a trillogy I think but i looking forward to it i hoping that it going to be something a bit different for once a change to the string of remakes and superhero movies
 
We are just starting to hear alot about this film where i am and i desperatly want to see it! Critics are going nuts over it. In a good way I mean
 
"Night watch" is a very good Russian Sci-Fi / Fantasy movie (in my view: "Lord of the Rings" meets "Prophecy" meets Matrix meets Blade). The movie been out on DVD for some time, but since Fox bought all American distribution rights, they have mandated to stop making NTSC formatted dvds of it. The disk has been slowly disappearing from even Russian stores in America. And Fox kept postponing the release until recent limited release, while sequel "Day Watch" is already out in Russia on pal dvd (without subs only). Both installments beat American movies in Russia. And the studio is insisting on filming the 3rd part in English. Ain't US movie studios wonderful :roll: But they did do a good job on making subtitles not a nuisance, but an enhancement
 
I saw 'Nochnoy dozor (Night Watch) last year at the cinema and I thought it was great, I had seen it already in its original format, but at the cinema they had added effects (thank you Fox!), the film is brilliant, I enjoyed the story and the whole idea of the film. The subtitles were also easy to follow.

Looking forward to the sequels.

Thanks for ALL the information.

:)

 

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Caught this film on DVD last night (normal subtitles version) and I thought it has a packed and fairly decent, though not mind-blowing, storyline of a contemporary war between the forces of light and darkness, which may not necessarily be as (boringly) unambiguous as they are in the Star Wars or LoTR movies. I really like the way the 'hero' of the film is portrayed; he is not some quasi-invulnerable kungfu master, he is shown to make mistakes and get hurt a lot, and generally quite an empathizable character.
 
yep, i've seen it now, and really enjoyed it. was such a relief not to have towatch pretty hollywood people not make the most of the plot. i found the subtitles not a problem and will certainly see the second part when it comes out.
 
I didn't really like the film - it seemed that the director just goes out of his way to show that "we are as good as Hollywood". The books were much better.
 
a friend and i were wondering if the books have been translated to english. as you've read them, mabe you can enlighten us?
 
Reading Night Watch in English right now. Can't say much yet, but the book seems pretty accessible and easy to get into. It seems the movie is going much faster, doing a lot of separate events in one, and I think it would be very useful to have read the book before you see the movie; it explains a lot.
 
Yeah - I saw this too and aside from the rather cool subtitles, I was bored about 10 minutes in. If you want me, you gotta grab me early or I'll just zone out. I just wasn't impressed.
 
Thadlerian said:
Reading Night Watch in English right now. Can't say much yet, but the book seems pretty accessible and easy to get into. It seems the movie is going much faster, doing a lot of separate events in one, and I think it would be very useful to have read the book before you see the movie; it explains a lot.
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could you say who did the translation? or post a link? would also be useful to know how the translation stands up to the oriignal? or was it written from the film rather than a translation of the oriignal fiction work?
i prefer to read a book after the movie, though it doesn't often happen that way as i'm a voracious reader and have been delving into sci/fi fantasy stuff for years, because i tend to get very disapointed by the choping of story lines.
 
The book is translated by Andrew Bromfield. I certainly believe the English version of the book is translated from the Russian original, if that's what you mean?
 
I read the Russian original, but I would like to read the English translation just to find out how it all sounds in English.
 
Nightwatch (Nochnoy dozor) (2004)

Ok so this was a very enjoyable horror, action film, what I want to know where is the remaining parts of the trilogy.

As I understood it, there was Day Watch and maybe Dusk Watch was the third chapter.

What has happened to it, it's been three years now, I was looking forward to the Russian Version before the obvious Hollywood remake.

Can anyone shed any light. (hahaha no pun intended)
 
Re: Nightwatch (Nochnoy dozor) (2004)

Day Watch has been out in most of Europe and the former eastern block since January. It's due out in the US 1st June and in the UK 5th October. The third installment (Last Watch) I've heard will be set in the US (because of some funding deal I think).
 
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