Um terror de fantasia ambientado na atual Moscou, onde as respectivas forças que controlam o dia e a noite lutam.Um terror de fantasia ambientado na atual Moscou, onde as respectivas forças que controlam o dia e a noite lutam.Um terror de fantasia ambientado na atual Moscou, onde as respectivas forças que controlam o dia e a noite lutam.
- Direção
- Roteiristas
- Artistas
- Prêmios
- 2 vitórias e 10 indicações no total
- Anton
- (as Konstantin Khabenskiy)
- Egor
- (as Dima Martynov)
- Direção
- Roteiristas
- Elenco e equipe completos
- Produção, bilheteria e muito mais no IMDbPro
Avaliações em destaque
The Night Watch keep on searching, for those who overstep the mark, those who crawl out of the shadows, those who live their life in dark; they have visions of the horrors, that may take the world to hell, using seers that they've discovered, a contemporary show and tell.
Anton finds more than he bargained for when hunting down a cursed doctor who is about to bring calamity and chaos reigning down on everything and all.
"Nochnoy Dozor" is an original and refreshing dark tale of the eternal battle in the world, between the good and the evil. The unpredictable story has great special effects and is very engaging, and it is interesting to see how the distinction between good and evil is actually very blurred in the present days. Unfortunately I found the screenplay very confused in spite of having understood the whole plot. Maybe watching a second time, this movie may be better and better. My vote is six.
Title (Brazil): "Guardiões da Noite" ("Guardians of the Night")
First, let's applaud the good parts. "Night Watch" is distinctly Russian. Moscow is presented as a vibrant mix of modern metropolis and Gothic-style throwback to the middle ages. The plot, heavily steeped in its own fabricated mythology from a series of popular books, also serves on some level as an allegory for the fall of Communism and the rise of Capitalism. In my mind, the forces of "dark" forced underground are the Communists, while the forces of "light" (whose HQ is fronted by the City Electric Company) are the Capitalists, who often get caught up in their own bureaucracy in their vain attempts to keep the peace and not violate the truce. Some of the special effects and modern riffs on vampirism are highly imaginative and disarming (I loved "The Gloom" aspect). The American distributors also deserve some credit for their creative use of subtitles which often become part of the scene without ever distracting from the visuals.
Unfortunately, the director is clearly a veteran of music videos, and he makes the action sequences hyper kinetic and often incoherent. When he does manage to create an alluring visual, he quick-cuts, and you wish he would've had the patience to hold some of the shots longer. This hectic visual style is evident in the plotting as well, which clearly is setting up for sequels with the introduction of many characters, though some of the subplots (especially involving the cursed virgin woman and her evil vortex) seemed unnecessary. Likewise, the rushed finale seemed oddly anti-climatic and didn't pack the wallop I feel the filmmakers intended.
Despite the flaws, I will eagerly await the American distribution of the sequels, and I suppose that is the greatest compliment a film like this can receive.
When Anton finds out he is an other; a person with special powers, he joins the side of light. Anton is a seer and when he is finding a victim of two vampires, he runs into Svetlana, a virgin cursed with bad luck and key into the Apocolpes.
Night Watch is a mind blowing, visually astounding triumph of Russian cinema. Its dark, claustrophobic, grungy and a very thrilling ride. You can see that Timur Bekmambetov has a history in commercials, this moves at a fast paced and the camera doesn't stop moving, with constant fast swoops and always tracking around. The story has been done many times before, but it seems so fresh here. The flaw of the story though is that it's so layered it's hard to understand at first. As it moves at such at fast pace, there isn't much chance to take everything in and to nut everything out. But with all the energy Nightwatch contains, you don't care, cause you'll gladly go again.
For the small budget it had, you wonder how they made this film. You are constantly blown away by the visual effects. They are so flawless. The subtitles are cleverly used as well; they come into a form of their own.
All i can say is i cant wait for the sequels to now make there way over.
It is unfortunate that modern Russian cinematography seems to be chasing the success of Hollywood (which is ironic, given the country's negative attitude towards US in general and Hollywood in particular), but this movie benefits from Hollywood-style special effects, and is free of annoying clichés (unlike the atrociously pretentious "Barber of Siberia" - another recent style-heavy Russian blockbuster; sorry Mikhalkov).
To sum up, this movie is quite original, imaginative, stylish and at times visually stunning, which in my book constitutes success, but don't expect any depth of ideas.
Você sabia?
- CuriosidadesThe film was intended to be the first in a trilogy. A second movie was released as Guardiões do Dia (2006). A third movie, titled Twilight Watch, was announced as the first English film in the series, but director Timur Bekmambetov left Russia to make O Procurado (2008) first. He later said that Wanted had become how he had envisioned Twilight Watch, so he had no immediate plans to start working on the film. The project has since been shelved.
- Erros de gravaçãoThe episode of "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer" (1997) that Yegor is watching skips to a different scene that happens much later in a matter of seconds.
- Citações
[Geser lies on the floor with a book, telling the tale of the Virgin of Byzantium, the origin of the Others, the Great War, and the prophecy of the Great Other]
Geser: ...And so it will be, until a man emerges who is meant to become the Great One. And, if he chooses the side of Light, then Light will win. But, those, to whom the truth has been revealed, say that he will choose Darkness. For it is easier to kill the Light within oneself, than to scatter the Darkness around... The prophecies are coming true.
- Cenas durante ou pós-créditosIn the international version of the film, the first words of the prologue appear as a Russian text title which then transforms into its English translation. The Russian version does not have any text title.
- Versões alternativasOn the US DVD the French Audio contains different music than the English and Spanish Audio tracks on the disc.
- ConexõesAlternate-language version of Nochnoy bazar (2005)
- Trilhas sonorasNa teplokhode muzyka igrayet
("Music is Playing on the Motor Ship")
Music by Vyacheslav Dobrynin
Lyrics by Mikhail Ryabinin (as M.I. Meyerovich)
Performed by Olga Zarubina (uncredited)
Played on a motor ship early in the film
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- País de origem
- Central de atendimento oficial
- Idiomas
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- Night Watch
- Locações de filme
- São Petersburgo, Rússia(subway train scenes)
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Bilheteria
- Orçamento
- US$ 4.200.000 (estimativa)
- Faturamento bruto nos EUA e Canadá
- US$ 1.502.188
- Fim de semana de estreia nos EUA e Canadá
- US$ 86.985
- 19 de fev. de 2006
- Faturamento bruto mundial
- US$ 50.336.279
- Tempo de duração1 hora 54 minutos
- Cor
- Mixagem de som
- Proporção
- 1.85 : 1