Aleksandr Sokurov
Directing
1951-06-14 · village Podorvikha, Irkutsk Region, RSFSR, USSR, (now Russia)
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.
Filmography
Naum. Predictions
2026 · Movie
Director's Diary
2025 · Movie
Gjirokastra
2024 · Movie
Russian Dreams
2023 · Movie
Fairytale
2022 · Movie
A Russian Youth
2019 · Movie
Voices in the Old Walls
2019 · Movie
The Life Of My Friend
2017 · Movie
Closeness
2017 · Movie
Go. Go. Go
2016 · Movie
Francofonia
2015 · Movie
Voice of Sokurov
2014 · Movie
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
2013 · Movie
Film about the film
2013 · Movie
Alexander Sokurov. Temptation
2012 · Movie
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
2011 · Series
Faust
2011 · Movie
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
2011 · Movie
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011 · Series
We Need Happiness
2010 · Movie
Intonation. Arsen Kanokov
2010 · Movie
Intonation. Vladimir Yakunin
2010 · Movie
Intonation. Valery Zorkin
2010 · Movie
Intonation. Yuri Schmidt
2010 · Movie
Intonation. Boris Averin
2010 · Movie
Intonation. Sergey Slonimsky
2010 · Movie
The Ways of the World: Vol. 1
2010 · Movie
Matussek trifft
2010 · Series
The Art of Time
2009 · Movie
Deserto rosa. Luigi Ghirri
2009 · Movie
Reading Book of Blockade
2009 · Movie
Elegy of a Voyage
2009 · Movie
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree
2008 · Movie
Rehearsal: Yuri Temirkanov
2008 · Movie
Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema
2008 · Movie
Alexandra
2007 · Movie
Boris Godounov
2007 · Movie
The Andrei Tarkovsky Companion
2007 · Movie
Sokurov
2006 · Movie
Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya
2006 · Movie
The Sun
2005 · Movie
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Mozart. Requiem
2004 · Movie
Father and Son
2003 · Movie
In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark
2003 · Movie
Kira
2003 · Movie
Islands. Alexander Sokurov
2003 · Movie
Russian Ark
2002 · Movie
Taurus
2001 · Movie
Dolce
2000 · Movie
Moloch
1999 · Movie
The Knot
1998 · Movie
Confession
1998 · Series
Petersburg Diary: Kozintsev's Apartment
1998 · Movie
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat
1998 · Movie
Documenta X - Die Filme
1997 · Movie
A Humble Life
1997 · Movie
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky
1997 · Movie
Robert. A Fortunate Life
1997 · Movie
Mother and Son
1997 · Movie
Edward Shelganov visiting Sokurov
1997 · Movie
Oriental Elegy
1996 · Movie
Celebrate Cinema 101
1996 · Movie
Spiritual Voices
1995 · Movie
A Soldier's Dream
1995 · Movie
Whispering Pages
1994 · Movie
Elegy from Russia
1993 · Movie
Stone
1992 · Movie
An Example of Intonation
1991 · Movie
To the Events in Transcaucasia
1990 · Movie
The Second Circle
1990 · Movie
Save and Protect
1990 · Movie
Simple Elegy
1990 · Movie
Leningrad Retrospective
1990 · Movie
Soviet Elegy
1989 · Movie
Petersburg Elegy
1989 · Movie
Sonata for Hitler
1989 · Movie
Days of Eclipse
1988 · Movie
Maria
1988 · Movie
I Love You All Very Much...
1988 · Movie
The Lonely Voice of Man
1987 · Movie
The Evening Sacrifice
1987 · Movie
Empire
1987 · Movie
Moscow Elegy
1987 · Movie
Mournful Unconcern
1987 · Movie
And Nothing More
1987 · Movie
Elegy
1986 · Movie
Patience Labour
1985 · Movie
You Should Survive
1981 · Movie
Dmitri Shostakovich. Sonata for Viola
1981 · Movie
The Degraded
1980 · Movie
VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
1979 · Movie
Last Day of a Rainy Summer
1979 · Movie
Callsign R1NN
1975 · Movie
Summer of Maria Voynova
1975 · Movie
The Automobile Gains in Reliability
1974 · Movie
The Earthliest of Concerns
1974 · Movie
Like a River’s Flow
Movie
France, toi, France
Movie