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Oriental Elegy

1996

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.

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ASAS
Aleksandr Sokurov

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

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Basic Information
Status
Released
Release Date
4/26/1996
Runtime
0 hours, 45 minutes
Original Language
RU
Financial
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Revenue
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Profit/Loss
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ROI: N/A
Genres
Documentary
Production Countries
Japan (JP)
Russia (RU)
Spoken Languages
Japanese (ja)
Russian (ru)
Production Companies
NHK
NHK
S
Severny Fond
Lenfilm
Lenfilm