Day Watch (film)

Day Watch
US theatrical release poster
Дневной Дозор (Russian)
Directed byTimur Bekmambetov
Screenplay bySergei Lukyanenko
Timur Bekmambetov
Alexander Talal
Based onThe Night Watch
by Sergei Lukyanenko
Produced byKonstantin Ernst
Anatoli Maksimov
StarringKonstantin Khabensky
Mariya Poroshina
Aleksei Chadov
Gosha Kutsenko
Igor Lifanov
Jeanna Friske
CinematographySergei Trofimov
Edited byDmitry Kiselyov
Music byYuri Poteyenko
Production
companies
Distributed byGemini Film (Russia and Baltics)
Fox Searchlight Pictures (International)
Release date
  • 1 January 2006 (2006-01-01)
Running time
131 minutes
CountryRussia
LanguagesRussian
Kazakh
Budget$4.2 million
Box office$42.9 million

Day Watch is a 2006 Russian fantasy film directed and co-written by Timur Bekmambetov. It opened in theatres across Russia on 1 January 2006, the United States on 1 June 2007, and the United Kingdom on 5 October 2007. It is a sequel to the 2004 film Night Watch, featuring the same cast. Despite sharing its title with the second novel in the series, it is actually based on the second and third parts of Sergey Lukyanenko's novel Night Watch, the first part of which the 2004 film was based on.