Ward No. 6 (film)
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- Galina Shadur
- Karen Shakhnazarov
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| Russian: Палата № 6 | |
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| Cinematography | Aleksandr Kuznetsov |
| Edited by | Irina Kozhemyakina |
| Music by | Evgeny Kadimsky |
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| 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. It is an adaptation of a Chekov novella of the same name.
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]