Aleksandr Sokurov
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 (40 titles)
MovieNaum. Predictions
self · 2026
MovieDirector's Diary
Self · 2025
MovieVoices in the Old Walls
2019
6.5MovieFrancofonia
(voice) · 2015
6.5MovieVoice of Sokurov
Himself · 2014
6.2MovieThe Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
Himself - Filmmaker · 2013
Film about the film
himself · 2013
MovieAlexander Sokurov. Temptation
2012
6.5ShowAgnès Varda: From Here to There
Self · 2011
7.6MovieAgnès Varda: From Here to There
Self · 2011
7.7ShowThe Story of Film: An Odyssey
Self · 2011
MovieWe Need Happiness
Narrator (voice) · 2010
Matussek trifft
Self · 2010
MovieThe Art of Time
Self · 2009
7.4MovieElegy of a Voyage
The Traveler (uncredited) · 2009
MovieAleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree
Self · 2008
5.0MovieAlexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema
Himself · 2008
MovieSokurov
himself · 2006
6.9MovieElegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya
Himself · 2006
6.8MovieIn One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark
Himself · 2003
MovieKira
Self · 2003
Islands. Alexander Sokurov
2003
7.2MovieRussian Ark
The Time Traveller (voice / uncredited) · 2002
7.3MovieThe Knot
Self · 1998
Petersburg Diary: Kozintsev's Apartment
рассказчик, озвучка, в титрах не указан · 1998
MovieThe Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat
1998
MovieThe Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky
(voice) · 1997
6.3MovieRobert. A Fortunate Life
Narrator · 1997
MovieEdward Shelganov visiting Sokurov
1997
6.2MovieOriental Elegy
Narrator (voice) (uncredited) · 1996