Day Watch (2006)

A man 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.

Director:

Timur Bekmambetov

Writers:

Timur Bekmambetov, Sergey Lukyanenko (novel)

Stars:

Konstantin Khabenskiy, Mariya Poroshina, Vladimir Menshov

8 wins & 10 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	...	Egor (as Dima Martynov)
Valeriy Zolotukhin	...	Otets Kosti
Aleksey Chadov	...	Kostya
Nurzhuman Ikhtymbaev	...	Zoar
Aleksey Maklakov	...	Semyon
Aleksandr Samoylenko	...	Medved
Yuriy Kutsenko	...	Ignat (as Gosha Kutsenko)
Irina Yakovleva	...	Galina Rogova
Georgiy Dronov	...	Tolik (as Egor Dronov)

Storyline

Anton belongs to the Forces of the Light as do his powerful girlfriend and apprentice, but his son is a powerful teenager from the Darkness and Anton protects him. When the balance between Light and Darkness is affected by the death of some evil vampires, Anton is framed and accused of the murders, and he chases an ancient chalk that has the power of changing the destiny of its owner.

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Plot Keywords:

year 2006 | 2000s | year 1992 | 1990s | moscow | 

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Taglines:

The second chapter in the epic fantasy trilogy

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Genres:

Action | Fantasy | Horror | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for violence

Did You Know?

Trivia

The restaurant that Svetlana invites Anton to is called "Khram drakona" ("Dragon's Temple").

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Goofs

When Anton and Olga take off to Samarqand, the plane flies off, touching some trees with its fuselage. The pilots retract the landing gears which are shown retracting. In the next wide shot, the plane still has the landing gears out.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Narrator: Why does the wind come? To cover tracks where we have passed... so no one thinks we are still alive. It was long ago and no one can remember now how the Warriors of Light and the Warriors of Darkness clashed on the Bridge of Justice... how blood was spilled... how the great Jassar's heart could not bear it and he stopped the battle. But once, when the night is longer than the day, a new Great One will come and the world will be plunged into darkness. And nothing can save it, except...

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Crazy Credits

The Russian title of the movie is displayed as a pattern of lit windows at the front side of the hotel "Kosmos". The international version has an additional title card which appears before the beginning of the film.

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Alternate Versions

The Russian version is approx. 20 minutes longer than the international cinema release.

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Connections

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

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Soundtracks

Na teplokhode muzyka igrayet
Music by Vyacheslav Dobrynin (as V. Dobrynin)
Lyrics by Mikhail Ryabinin (as M. Ryabinin)
© TABBAK
Played at Yegor's birthday party, lip-synched by a female singer

User Reviews

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.

Details

Official Sites:

Fox Searchlight [United States]

Country:

Russia

Language:

Russian

Release Date:

15 June 2007 (USA)

Also Known As:

Night Watch 2

Filming Locations:

Kazakhstan

Box Office

Budget:

$4,200,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$46,730, 3 June 2007

Gross USA:

$450,897

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$42,918,532

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bazelevs Production, Channel One Russia, TABBAK

Technical Specs

Runtime:

132 min 146 min (unrated) 139 min (DVD)

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1