Night Watch

Ночной дозор (2004)

Timing: 1:54 (114 min)

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Release date

2004-06-27

Country

Russia, United States

Production

20th Century Fox, Fox Searchlight Pictures, Bazelevs Production, First Channel, Tabbak

Genre

Fantasy, Action, Thriller

Budget

$4 200 000

Revenue

$33 951 015

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Director

Timur Bekmambetov

Actors

Konstantin Khabenskiy, Vladimir Menshov, Galina Tyunina, Mariya Poroshina, Zhanna Friske, Viktor Verzhbitskiy, Rimma Markova, Mariya Mironova, Dmitriy Martynov, Valeriy Zolotukhin
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Scenario

Timur Bekmambetov

Producer

Konstantin Ernst, Anatoliy Maksimov

Operator

Sergey Trofimov

Composer

Yuriy Poteenko

Artist

Audition

Tamara Odintsova

Editing

Dmitry Kiselev
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• The producer's name is misspelled in the opening credits of the film – Konstantin Ernst.
• Once, the film's screenwriter and author of the novel it’s based on, Sergei Lukyanenko, suggested creating a parody of his own film. A 'translation' into Russian from Russian, titled 'Night Bazaar' (2005), was prepared by Alexander Bachilo and voiced by the well-known voice-over artist Leonid Volodarsky. Despite the fact that Dmitry Puchkov (Goblin) was not involved in this project and has no connection to it, the DVD cover stated 'special ('Goblin') translation.' However, the word 'Goblin' was written in quotation marks and parentheses, and in lowercase. Thus, the commercial department of 'ORT-Video' wanted to emphasize that they did not use the 'Goblin' brand to increase the project’s popularity, but wrote it that way because the name had become a household word.
• At the 45th minute of the film, if you look closely at the blurry background, you can see that it is none other than Rembrandt’s painting 'The Night Watch'.
• ‘Night Watch’ actively uses product placement. The revenue generated reached half a million dollars.
• In 2010, the British magazine Empire published a list of the 100 greatest non-English language films in the history of cinema. 'Night Watch' (2004) took 100th place on it.
• Yegor is watching the cartoon "The Adventures of Domovenok" (1986).
• At the 34th minute of the film, Geser calls Tolik asking him to find out about future events in Moscow. Tolik finds information about the crash of an Il-86 aircraft, flight "Moscow-Antalya", which fell 10 km from Vnukovo (according to the film's script). The screen of Tolik's computer shows real images of the actual crash of the Il-86 of Pulkovo Airlines (registration number 86060), which occurred in Sheremetyevo in July 2002.
• The film is based on the novel "Night Watch" (1998) by Sergei Lukyanenko.
• "Night Watch" makes extensive use of product placement. The revenue generated reached half a million dollars.