Whispering Pages

Whispering Pages, also transliterated as Tikhiye Stranitsy (Russian: Тихие страницы), is a 1994 Russian film directed by Alexander Sokurov. The film was a Russian-German co-production.^[1]

A man wanders slowly through the catacombs of a wrecked city, passing by ruins, listless denizens milling about, unruly mobs, and acts of mass suicide. He agrees to do some paperwork to move a dead body, but the bureaucrat who manages the forms ensnares him in Kafkaesque questions. He admits, perhaps not honestly, to a murder, and confronts a prostitute about sin, shame, and God. At the end of the film, he sits down under the statue of a lion and then disappears.

The film has won acclaim from The New York Times,^[2] Variety,^[3] the Chicago Tribune,^[4] and the Chicago Reader.^[5]

• Alexander Cherednik - wanderer
• Elizaveta Korolyova - prostitute
• Sergei Barkovsky - bureaucrat

• Tikhie stranitsy at IMDb