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Nochnoy dozor (2004) More at IMDbPro »

• Official selection from Russia for the Academy Awards of 2005.
  
  
• This film broke all records in Russia and became the #1 box-office movie of all time. The record was broken the following year by the Russian movie Turetskiy gambit (2005).
  
  
• In Anton's apartment, a reproduction of Rembrandt's painting "Nightwatch" can be briefly seen reflected in a window.
  
  
• The film was a huge box-office hit in Russia, which made it widely despised by an underground nonconformist intellectual movement "Padonki", who criticized it for wide use of Hollywood-style filming and lack of ideas behind the FX. They labeled the movie "Nochnoy Pozor" (Night Shame).
  
  
• In the International version of the film Yegor is watching "Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Buffy vs. Dracula (#5.1)" (2000).
  
  
• The original book "Nochnoy Dozor" comprises three interconnected stories (as does every book in the "Dozor" series). The movie "Nochnoy dozor" only covers one of them, the two others serving as basis for its sequel.
  
  
• In the final book of the series, "Posledniy Dozor" (Last Watch), first Semen, then Yegor reference some noticeable events of this movie, having seen them in their dreams, and Anton tells them dreams are sometimes messages from parallel worlds. This might explain all the differences between the "Dozor" movies and the "Dozor" books.
  
  
• Konstantin Khabenskiy, who plays Anton, actually worked briefly as a night watchman before he became an actor.
  
  
• In the original book "Night Watch", Alissa Donnikova wasn't a singer and wasn't in a group of four girls. This came from the actress who portrays her, Zhanna Friske, who once was in a group called "Blestyaschiye" (the glittering).
  
  
• Originally, the film, as well as its sequels, were commissioned by Channel One as a four-part mini-series for television. The rushes impressed the executives so much that they decided the material merited big-screen treatment.
  
  

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