Whispering Pages, also transliterated as Tikhiye Stranitsy (), is a 1994 Russian film directed by Alexander Sokurov. The film was a Russian-German co-production.Whispering Pages at Allmovie The film is loosely based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's 1866 novel Crime and Punishment.
Plot 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.
Reception The film has won acclaim from The New York Times,New York Times review Variety, the Chicago Tribune,Chicago Tribune review and the Chicago Reader.Chicago Reader review
Cast Alexander Cherednik - wanderer Elizaveta Korolyova - prostitute - bureaucrat
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