"Now, I don’t blame you if you’ve never heard of Russian Ark. However, I think everyone here knows Steven Spielberg, so I’m sure you can’t help but wonder: What the hell is Russian Ark?

It’s one of the few films that was shot in a single continuous take that never cuts. And not like 1917 or Birdman, those films used visual effects and editing tricks to appear as a single take. Russian Ark was shot in real-time and was only shot four times (the first three times had major technical errors, the fourth was the one that worked)."