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Aleksandr Sokurov (born June 14, 1951) is a Russian director of avant-garde and independent films that have won him international acclaim. Described as a heir to Tarkovsky, spare, gloomy and contemplative, he often blurs lines between image and world. His noticable trademark and style includes long, accurate shots of real painterly compositions, disorted field of view, zooms and use of wide angle lenses. Often plotless with emphasis on aesthetics and impressionism his films are noted for philosophical approach to history and nature. Sokurov underlines the importance of film, not to yield to the modern audience laziness, and to stay away from mere entertainment.
His most significant works include a feature film, Russian Ark (2002), filmed in a single unedited shot, Mother and Son (1997) and Faust (2011), which was honoured with the Golden Lion, the highest prize for the best film at the Venice Film Festival.
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01 September 2013
Yekaterinburg, Russia, July 17th, 1917. Czar Nicholas II Romanov and his entire family are brutally murdered by the Bolsheviks.
08 September 2011
A doctor in early 19th-century Germany becomes infatuated with the sister of a man he unintentionally killed and bargains with the Devil incarnate to conjure their union in exchange for his soul.
11 November 2015
Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) transforms a portrait of the world-renowned museum into a magisterial, centuries-spanning reflection on the relation between art, culture and power.
11 February 1994
An anonymous man wanders through decomposing, fog-enshrouded catacombs and encounters a series of “the degraded and the humiliated,” including a holy prostitute and a Kafkaesque bureaucrat.
03 April 2010
A collection of six documentary films featuring various locations and cultures of the world, screened at the Musée du Quai Branly from 18-23 May.
09 September 2009
Famous actors and ordinary people from all walks of life read stories from a book describing the 900-day siege of Leningrad during World War II.
12 September 2003
In this dreamlike film, a nameless father and his son, Aleksei, live together in an apartment in St. Petersburg.
01 January 1980
This film was Sokurov's first feature at Lenfilm, roughly based on a short story by the contemporary Soviet writer Grigory Baklanov about the transitional period from power to subordinance.
14 March 1988
A documentary film about the work of Dinara Asanova, director at the Lenfilm film studio.
13 September 1992
A young night watchman at the Anton Chekhov museum in Yalta encounters a mysterious, weary intruder who appears to be the playwright himself, returned from the dead.
01 August 2004
Sokurov directed and filmed Mozart’s Requiem for the Rossica Choir in the wonderful hall of the St.
20 October 2010
The life stories of two elderly women living in a remote region of Kurdish Iraq.
01 December 1988
This bleak late soviet-era drama follows the career of Malyanov, a young medical school graduate who has been sent to work in Turkmenia.
09 October 1990
Made up of footage of a protest manifestation of mothers whose children had been summoned to serve in Soviet military forces and sent to the zones of Transcaucasian conflicts.
15 June 2003
Film about the work of Ukrainian film director Kira Muratova.
22 March 1979
The story of VGIK teachers and students about the acting profession.
22 December 2022
A civil and artistic statement about those who determined the fate of the planet: Stalin, Churchill, Mussolini, Hitler, according to a Russian newspaper.
10 February 2019
A teenage soldier in World War I—a simple village boy with a naive youthful dream of fame and medals—throws himself into the unknown and goes blind in the first battle, thus taking on a new job: intercepting enemy planes by listening to the air through huge metal funnels.
29 June 1995
This small film came out of the material edited for Sokurov's five-hour documentary Spiritual Voices.
22 May 1997
A Humble Life is certainly true to its title, a documentary study of the day-to-day world of Umeno Mathuyoshi, an old woman who lives in an isolated mountain house in the Nara prefecture in Japan.
03 June 2007
Elderly Aleksandra visits her Russian soldier grandson, Denis, at the Chechen war front, providing comfort as she tours his army.
01 May 1981
1945, an attack aviation regiment is based at the field airfield, which is served by a team of young girls.
20 February 1997
A man goes for a walk through the countryside with his dying mother.
01 January 1991
The second film by Sokurov featuring Boris Yeltsin as the principal character. Now he is the President of Russia, invested with power, bearing the full responsibility for the destinies of his distant compatriots as well as his closest kin and friends.
31 December 1989
In "The Soviet Elegy" the long train of photos of the Soviet leaders, dead or alive, stops at the portrait of Yeltsin.
05 February 2019
A documentary grotesque in which even the walls speak. Famous directors of St. Petersburg cinema recall their lives and work, and images of old films come to life to remind the viewer of themselves.
22 May 2002
A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.
04 April 1987
A 1988 documentary film directed by Alexander Sokurov, about the later life and death of Soviet Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky.
05 December 2024
Albania in the 1960s, the city of Gjirokastra. Katya, a graduate of the Philology Department of Moscow State University, marries an Albanian, a young historian whom she met in Moscow.
01 April 1997
Aleksander Sokurov brings the treasures of the Hermitage back into the light by making films about artists and their paintings.
18 November 2006
Poetic portrait of a filmmaker. The famous director reflects on creativity and love. His friends and associates take part in the film: artist Vladimir Shinkarev, engineer Vladimir Nikolaev, actress Elena Kramer (Spiridonova), director, film critic Oleg Kovalov, necrorealist directors Yevgeny Yufit, Igor Bezrukov.
01 January 1987
The picture is about the anti-Hitler coalition of the USSR, England and America, which developed as a counterweight to the aggressive policy of Nazi Germany during the Second World War.
01 January 1990
A montage of Leningrad newsreel becomes a composite collage made up of documents-shots, divided in 16 parts, presenting the author's point of view on Russia and modern times.
24 February 2001
Unfolding over two days in 1924, the film depicts the dying Lenin, world revolutionary and father of the USSR, now powerless and isolated at his Gorki estate.
11 December 2008
The film is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
04 December 1998
The Dialogues with Solzhenitsyn is a two-part Russian television documentary by Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.
02 July 1985
Interesting short documentary on young athletes in a Soviet ice skating program, some of whom are barely past toddler age.
17 February 2005
A re-imagination of Japanese Emperor Hirohito’s final days in power as WWII draws to a close.
01 February 1999
In 1942 Bavaria, Eva is alone, when Adolf arrives with Josef, his wife Magda, and Martin to spend a couple of days without politics.
14 June 2014
Five years in the making, based on six lengthy interviews filmed on six different locations in Saint Petersburg, we meet an outspoken artist who covers here his entire life and prolific career.
05 February 2008
The painting tells about the difficult process of rehearsals under the guidance of a conductor.
01 January 1975
In the 20's an enthusiast radio amateur, Fyodor Lbov, experiments one of the first short-waves radio in the city of Gorky.
26 June 1987
A rich woman accidently comes across a conversation on the phone about people talking about a murder.
12 June 1974
This film was created by Sokurov before or during his VGIK student years for the regional TV of Gorki.
10 October 2009
Explores some of the most innovative attempts by contemporary artists, filmmakers, architects etc to explore multiple Temporalities and to counter the uniform sense of time promoted by our technology-driven society.
01 January 1974
A documentary film about the agricultural development in the region of Gorky: the everyday life in a sovkhoz, the building of a reservoir and of a greenhouse.
26 April 1996
A surreal journey of a displaced spirit as he wanders in the interminable darkness through the temporal landscape of a quaint and isolated feudal-era fishing village.
01 January 1997
Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov talks with the young director of independent experimental cinema Edward Shelganov.
29 November 1989
The story about the life of Shaliapin’s family, and an emotional generalization of the life of people in modern Leningrad.
03 February 1990
The office of the President of Lithuania, 1990. Inside, silence reigns, contrasting to the shouting of the crowds outside the windows of the governmental building.
04 April 1997
Petersburg Diary - Opening of the monument to Dostoevsky
25 April 2007
TV version of the Opera "Boris Godunov" modest Mussorgsky staged by Director Alexander Sokurov at the Bolshoi Theater.
04 June 2023
The film tells the story of a teenager Kolya, who, after the death of his mother, finds himself in the village with his grandmother.
11 June 1993
These images and sounds are poetic metaphors that transform “Elegy from Russia” into a document that provides a emotional–historical “memory bank” for all.
01 October 2011
Agnès Varda travels around the world to meet friends, artists and filmmakers for an expansive view of the global contemporary art scene.
01 August 1995
In 1994, Alexander Sokurov accompanied Russian troops assigned to a frontier military post at the Tajikistan/Afghanistan border to film their experiences.
01 February 1987
The action in this lavishly produced film takes place at an oddly ark-shaped mansion during World War I, and in spirit (although not in story) it reflects the play which inspired it, the ferociously antiwar Heartbreak House by George Bernard Shaw.
01 January 1996
This film project was made in 1996 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the cinema.
03 August 2017
1998, Nalchik. A Jewish family is in trouble: the youngest son and his bride do not come home, and in the morning, a ransom note arrives.
