Whispering Pages

Whispering Pages, also transliterated as Tikhiye Stranitsy (Тихие страницы), is a 1994 Russian film directed by Alexander Sokurov. The film was a Russian-German co-production.

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, Variety, the Chicago Tribune, and the Chicago Reader.

Cast

 * Alexander Cherednik - wanderer
 * Elizaveta Korolyova - prostitute
 * Sergei Barkovsky - bureaucrat