Whispering Pages


Whispering Pages, also transliterated as Tikhiye Stranitsy, 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
  • - bureaucrat