Night Watch

This week we are recommending Night Watch, or Nochnoy Dozor. It's a 2004 film from Russia. The film is a dark modern fantasy involving vampires and other supernatural creatures. It's the first part of a trilogy which is based on a series of book of the same names. The second is Day Watch and the third is Twilight Watch. The third has not yet been made into a movie.

Night Watch won the Silver Raven Award at the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Film, and it won a Golden Eagle for Best Sound at the Golden Eagle Awards in Russia. It also had nominations at the European Film Awards and at the Young Artist Awards.

Here is the official summary from the Fox Searchlight Website.

For as long as humanity has existed, there have been "Others" among us; Witches, Vampires and Shape-Shifters who are soldiers in the eternal war between Light and Dark.

Light Others protect mankind from Dark Others, who plague and torture humans.

Over 1000-years ago a truce was struck between Gesser, Lord of the Light, and Zavulon, General of Darkness. They agreed that no one could be forced to good or evil, people must choose freely for themselves. To uphold this truce, each side established underground forces; the soldiers of the Light would be called Night Watch, making sure Dark Others obeyed the truce. And the soldiers of Darkness would be called Day Watch, to do the same.

Ancient prophecy foretells that one day the Great One will arrive who can end the threat of an apocalyptic battle between Light and Dark Others. That day has come, and the Great One, once he or she is identified, must choose whether to destroy the light within or battle the surrounding darkness. This choice will reveal mankind's destiny.

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