Spiritual Voices. From the Diaries of War. A Narration in Five Episodes (1995)

Original title

Духовные голоса

Directed by

Alexander Sokurov

Genre

documentary

Country

Russia

Runtime

5h 40m

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 15 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Director Alexander Sokurov films Russian soldiers stationed at a remote border post in Tajikistan in the 1990s. The documentary focuses on their long stretches of inactivity, capturing the eerie stillness between rare moments of conflict.

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