Dnevnoy dozor (2006)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

Timur Bekmambetov

Writers:

Timur Bekmambetov (writer)
Sergei Lukyanenko (novel)

Release Date:

1 January 2006 (Belarus)

Genre:

Action | Fantasy | Horror | 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:

Framed | Murder | Death | Blood | Chalk

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

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:

Day Watch (Australia) (video title) (International: English title)
Night Watch 2 (International: English title) (USA) (TV title)
Дневной дозор (Russia)
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

Colour:

Colour

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:

The original movie title was "Nochnoy dozor 2: Mel Sudby" (Night Watch 2: The Chalk of Fate), as the movie is based on two stories from Sergei Lukyanenko's book "Night Watch". A teaser trailer with the title "Nochnoy dozor 2" could be seen on the Russian DVD of Turetskiy gambit (2005). A few months before release, the title was changed to "Dnevnoy dozor" (Day Watch). The end credits reflect the title change to "Dnevnoy dozor", though they keep the subtitle "Mel Sudby".

Goofs:

Continuity: When Anton (In Olga's body) opens the shower curtain when Svetlana is screaming for him to leave, the next shot is of Svetlana holding the shower curtain closed and screaming at him.

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:

References 9 rota (2005)

Completely Unexpected production of The Russian Cinema

I saw Night Watch some time ago and I thought: Humm... What a nice movie. Interesting. Than I went to see Day Watch on the day of the premiere. Tickets had to be bought 3 hours earlier in order to get some. There was a crowd was so packed that even visiting the toilet was impossible. When the movie was starting I thought: well just the next over-talked-about movie, nothing special, BUT What I saw just left me astonished. I could never think such thing could happen. It is comparable by grandiosity to Titanic, and to StarWars by excitement, to The Matrix by plot. I have not seen such a thing yet. It combines Comedy, Action, Drama, Triller, Sci-Fy, Fantasy, Horror in such a manner that they bond without arguments. It's a MUST SEE!!!