Directing · b. 1951 · village Podorvikha, Irkutsk Region, RSFSR, USSR, (now Russia)

Aleksandr Sokurov

Biography

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 t...

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