Ward No. 6 (film)

Ward No. 6
Ward No. 6
	Russian: Палата № 6
Directed by	Aleksandr Gornovsky; Karen Shakhnazarov;
Written by	Aleksandr Borodyansky; Anton Chekhov; Karen Shakhnazarov;
Produced by	Galina Shadur; Karen Shakhnazarov;
Starring	Vladimir Ilyin; Aleksey Vertkov; Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyorny; Yevgeny Stychkin; Viktor Solovyov;
Cinematography	Aleksandr Kuznetsov
Edited by	Irina Kozhemyakina
Music by	Evgeny Kadimsky
Country	Russia
Language	Russian

Ward No. 6 (Russian: Палата № 6) is a 2009 Russian drama film directed by Aleksandr Gornovsky and Karen Shakhnazarov.^[1]^[2]^[3]

The film was selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 82nd Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.

Plot

The film tells about the doctor of the provincial psychiatric hospital Ragin, who meets a patient with his own philosophy, as a result of communication with which he himself becomes crazy.^[4]

Cast

Vladimir Ilyin as Ragin
Aleksey Vertkov as Gromov
Aleksandr Pankratov-Chyorny as Mikhail Averyanovich
Yevgeny Stychkin as Khobotov
Viktor Solovyov as Nikita
Aleksey Zharkov as Old chief physician
Albina Evtushevskaya as Darya
Anna Sinyakina
Alina Olshanskaya
Stanislav Eventov^[5]

Reception

Critical response

Ward No.6 has an approval rating of 67% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 6 reviews, and an average rating of 6.00/10.^[6]

References

External links

Ward No. 6 at IMDb

[1] В Париже стартует фестиваль российского кино

[2] Более 40 фильмов вошли в программу фестиваля российского кино в Париже

[3] Алексей Вертков: «Я играл человека, хотя то, что он чиновник, имеет значение»

[4] Палата № 6, 2009

[5] Палата N°6 (2009) Full Cast & Crew

[6] "Ward No. 6". Rotten Tomatoes.

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