Directing
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
Naum. Predictions
Film · 2026
Director's Diary
Film · 2025
Voices in the Old Walls
Film · 2019
Francofonia
Film · 2015
Voice of Sokurov
Film · 2014
Film about the film
Film · 2013
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
Film · 2013
Alexander Sokurov. Temptation
Film · 2012
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
Film · 2011
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Series · 2011
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
Series · 2011
We Need Happiness
Film · 2010
Matussek trifft
Series · 2010
Elegy of a Voyage
Film · 2009
The Art of Time
Film · 2009
Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema
Film · 2008
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree
Film · 2008
Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya
Film · 2006
Sokurov
Film · 2006
In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark
Film · 2003
Kira
Film · 2003
Islands. Alexander Sokurov
Film · 2003
Russian Ark
Film · 2002
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat
Film · 1998
Petersburg Diary: Kozintsev's Apartment
Film · 1998
The Knot
Film · 1998
Edward Shelganov visiting Sokurov
Film · 1997
Robert. A Fortunate Life
Film · 1997
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky
Film · 1997
Oriental Elegy
Film · 1996
A Soldier's Dream
Film · 1995
An Example of Intonation
Film · 1991
Leningrad Retrospective
Film · 1990
Simple Elegy
Film · 1990
Petersburg Elegy
Film · 1989
Soviet Elegy
Film · 1989
And Nothing More
Film · 1987
Moscow Elegy
Film · 1987
You Should Survive
Film · 1981
VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
Film · 1979
Like a River’s Flow
Film