Russian director Alexander Sokurov's spellbinding 93 minute meditation on more then 300 years of Russian history is an elegiac, elegant ode to a world long since lost to the forces of time, made all the more dreamlike and poetic by the fact that it is a single, uninterrupted tracking shot through the massive and labyrinthian world of Saint Petersburg's Hermitage Museum, otherwise known as the Winter Palace.

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