Day Watch (2006) Dnevnoy dozor (original title)

Director:

Timur Bekmambetov

Writers:

Timur Bekmambetov (writer)
Sergey Lukyanenko (novel)
Aleksandr Talal (written by)

Release Date:

1 January 2006 (Belarus)

Genre:

Action | Fantasy | Thriller

Tagline:

First film of the year

Plot:

A man (Khabensky) who serves in the war between the forces of Light and Dark comes into possession of a device that can restore life to Moscow, which was nearly destroyed by an apocalyptic event.

Plot Keywords:

Murder | Framed | Death | Blood | Fight

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Konstantin Khabenskiy	...	Anton
Mariya Poroshina	...	Svetlana
Vladimir Menshov	...	Geser
Galina Tyunina	...	Olga
Viktor Verzhbitskiy	...	Zavulon
Zhanna Friske	...	Alisa
Dmitriy Martynov	...	Yegor (as Dima Martynov)
Valeriy Zolotukhin	...	Kostya's Father
Aleksey Chadov	...	Kostya
Nurzhuman Ikhtymbayev	...	Zoar
Aleksey Maklakov	...	Semyon
Aleksandr Samoylenko	...	Bear (Medved)
Yuriy Kutsenko	...	Ignat (as Gosha Kutsenko)
Irina Yakovleva	...	Galina Rogova
Georgiy Dronov	...	Tolik (as Yegor Dronov)

Also Known As:

"Dnevnoy dozor" - Russia (original title)
"Night Watch 2" - International (English title), USA (TV title)
"Night Patrol 2" - Europe (English title)

Runtime:

132 min | USA:146 min (unrated version) | Spain:139 min (DVD edition) | Argentina:146 min

Country:

Russia

Language:

Russian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Australia:MA | Ireland:15A | UK:15 | Singapore:NC-16 | New Zealand:R16 | South Korea:15 | Germany:16 | Peru:18 | Finland:K-15 | Argentina:16 | Netherlands:16 | Spain:13 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Almaty, Kazakhstan

Company:

Bazelevs Production

Trivia:

When Kostya's father, played by Valeriy Zolotukhin, arrives at Yegor's party, he is greeted by Anton "Valeri Sergeyevich". "Valeri Sergeyevich" is Zolotukhin's real name.

Goofs:

Continuity: Amount of snow on Kostya's jacket and face during his talk to Alisa

Quotes:

[first lines]
Narrator:Why does the wind blow? It wipes the tracks where we have passed. So that no one can tell, whether we still exist.

Movie Connections:

Featured in "Hollywood on Set: Ocean's Thirteen/Day Watch/Hostel: Part II" (2007)

Mind blowing film.....

My first piece of advice before watching this film would be to make sure you see Night Watch first. This certainly isn't a trilogy that you could watch out of sequence.

But for those willing to start at the beginning this is one of the most rewarding pieces of cinema you'll ever see. The CG is awesome, the acting first class and the direction of Timur Bekmambetov is breathtaking (a point not lost on Hollywood with him signing up to direct his first English language film).

The ending of the first film is taken a step further and knitted together beautifully with the second, keeping you gripped with questions and answers from start to finish. In fact the pace was so good I barely noticed the fact that it was 3 hours long.

The only things that confuse me about this film is where can they possibly go with Dusk Watch..... and could it be even better.