| Whispering Pages | |
| Director: | Alexander Sokurov |
| Music: | Mariinsky Theater Orchestra |
| Distributor: | Lenfilm Studio |
| Runtime: | 76 minutes |
| Country: | Russia |
| Language: | Russian |
Whispering Pages, also transliterated as Tikhiye Stranitsy (ru|'''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]