Confession (miniseries)
Confession (Russian: Повинность (из дневников командира Корабля, повествование в пяти частях), lit. 'From the diaries of the captain, story in five parts') is a Russian documentary by Alexander Sokurov released in 1998 as a five-part miniseries on television. The series follows the lives of Russian sailors aboard a battleship in the Barents Sea.
| Confession | |
|---|---|
| Russian | Повинность (из дневников командира Корабля, повествование в пяти частях) |
| Written by | Alexander Sokurov |
| Directed by | Alexander Sokurov |
| Music by | Richard Wagner Sergei Rachmaninov Pyotr Tchaikovsky Toru Takemitsu |
| Country of origin | Russia |
| Original language | Russian |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 5 |
| Production | |
| Producer | S. Voloshina |
| Cinematography | A. Fedorov |
| Editor | L. Semenova |
| Running time | 210 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Release | 1998 |
In Confession, Sokurov films officers from the Russian Navy, showing the monotony and lack of freedom of their everyday lives. The dialogue allows us to follow the reflections of a Ship Commander. Sokurov and his crew went aboard a naval patrol ship headed for Kuvshinka, a naval base in the Murmansk region, in the Barents Sea. Confined within the limited space of a ship anchored in Arctic waters, the team filmed the sailors as they went about their routine activities.[1]
References
- Spiritual Voices Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Original text licensed CC BY-SA by MACBA