Night Watch
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Short description
Night Watch is set in a version of Moscow where humans share the city with the Others, people with supernatural abilities who align themselves with either the forces of light or the forces of darkness. Centuries ago the two sides signed a truce that divided time between them: the light governs the day, the dark claims the night. To keep the peace, each side polices the other. Anton Gorodetsky belongs to the Night Watch, the light's patrol, whose task is to restrain dark Others, vampires among them, and stop them from preying on ordinary people. An old prophecy holds that a powerful Other will one day tip the balance between the two sides, and the film follows Anton as that possibility moves closer.
Timur Bekmambetov directed and co-wrote the film with Laeta Kalogridis; Konstantin Ernst and Anatoliy Maksimov produced it. It was the first feature Bekmambetov directed, and he returned to the story with Day Watch two years later, before going on to films including Wanted and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. Konstantin Khabenskiy leads the cast as Anton, alongside Vladimir Menshov, Galina Tyunina, Mariya Poroshina, Zhanna Friske and Viktor Verzhbitskiy. Made for about 4 million US dollars, it took roughly 34 million worldwide.
On IMDb the film holds 6.4 out of 10 from around 57,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.2 out of 10 from over 850 votes. A critics' rating of 6 out of 10 from 128 reviews places it close to those audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is based on the novel "Night Watch" (1998) by Sergei Lukyanenko.
- At the 45th minute of the film, if you look closely at the blurry background, you can see that it is none other than Rembrandt’s painting 'The Night Watch'.
- Yegor is watching the cartoon "The Adventures of Domovenok" (1986).
- Sergei Lukyanenko played a small role in the movie as the mage Ruslan.
- In 2010, the British magazine Empire published a list of the 100 greatest non-English language films in the history of cinema. 'Night Watch' (2004) took 100th place on it.
- At the 34th minute of the film, Geser calls Tolik asking him to find out about future events in Moscow. Tolik finds information about the crash of an Il-86 aircraft, flight "Moscow-Antalya", which fell 10 km from Vnukovo (according to the film's script). The screen of Tolik's computer shows real images of the actual crash of the Il-86 of Pulkovo Airlines (registration number 86060), which occurred in Sheremetyevo in July 2002.
- "Night Watch" makes extensive use of product placement. The revenue generated reached half a million dollars.
- The producer's name is misspelled in the opening credits of the film – Konstantin Ernst.
- Once, the film's screenwriter and author of the novel it’s based on, Sergei Lukyanenko, suggested creating a parody of his own film. A 'translation' into Russian from Russian, titled 'Night Bazaar' (2005), was prepared by Alexander Bachilo and voiced by the well-known voice-over artist Leonid Volodarsky. Despite the fact that Dmitry Puchkov (Goblin) was not involved in this project and has no connection to it, the DVD cover stated 'special ('Goblin') translation.' However, the word 'Goblin' was written in quotation marks and parentheses, and in lowercase. Thus, the commercial department of 'ORT-Video' wanted to emphasize that they did not use the 'Goblin' brand to increase the project’s popularity, but wrote it that way because the name had become a household word.
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