''Confession'' (russian: Повинность (из дневников командира Корабля, повествование в пяти частях), English: ''From the diaries of the captain, story in five parts'') is a Russian documentary by
Alexander Sokurov released in 1998 as a five-part
miniseries on television. The series follows the lives of Russian sailors aboard a battleship in the
Barents Sea
The Barents Sea ( , also ; no, Barentshavet, ; russian: Баренцево море, Barentsevo More) is a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean, located off the northern coasts of Norway and Russia and divided between Norwegian and Russian territo ...
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In ''Confession'', Sokurov films officers from the
Russian Navy, showing the monotony and lack of freedom of their everyday lives. The dialogue allows us to follow the reflections of a Ship Commander. Sokurov and his crew went aboard a naval patrol ship headed for Kuvshinka, a naval base in the Murmansk region, in the Barents Sea. Confined within the limited space of a ship anchored in Arctic waters, the team filmed the sailors as they went about their routine activities.
Spiritual Voices
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona. Original text licensed CC BY-SA by MACBA
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1998 films
1998 Russian television series debuts
1998 Russian television series endings
Films directed by Alexander Sokurov
Russian documentary films
Russian television miniseries
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