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.

Cast

You Should Survive

The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat

And Nothing More

narrator (voice)

The Time Traveller (voice / uncredited)

Petersburg Elegy

Narrator (voice)

Alexander Sokurov. Temptation

Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya

Edward Shelganov visiting Sokurov

Voice of Sokurov

In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark

We Need Happiness

Narrator (voice)

An Example of Intonation

Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema

Robert. A Fortunate Life

Petersburg Diary: Kozintsev's Apartment

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Film about the film

Elegy of a Voyage

The Traveler (uncredited)

Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Leningrad Retrospective

The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky

The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars

Himself - Filmmaker

Narrator (voice)

A Soldier's Dream

Agnès Varda: From Here to There

The Art of Time

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree

VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession

Voices in the Old Walls

Naum. Predictions

Director's Diary

Crew

Director, Writer, Dialogue

Days of Eclipse

Director, Director of Photography

Writer, Director

Director, Writer

Director, Screenplay

Director, Screenplay

Director, Director of Photography

The Second Circle

Reading Book of Blockade

Spiritual Voices

Director, Writer

Robert. A Fortunate Life

Director, Writer

Director, Writer

Whispering Pages

Screenplay, Director

Save and Protect

Mournful Unconcern

Writer, Director

Petersburg Elegy

Elegy of a Voyage

Director, Writer

Director, Writer

A Soldier's Dream

Director, Writer

The Lonely Voice of Man

Director, Director of Photography

Screenplay, Stage Director

Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya

Director, Writer

Sonata for Hitler

Director, Writer

Director, Screenplay

Leningrad Retrospective

Dmitri Shostakovich. Sonata for Viola

Writer, Director

Director, Writer

Director, Writer

We Need Happiness

Patience Labour

An Example of Intonation

Director, Writer

The Earthliest of Concerns

Director, Writer

The Automobile Gains in Reliability

Director, Editor

Last Day of a Rainy Summer

Director, Writer

Celebrate Cinema 101

Documenta X - Die Filme

The Evening Sacrifice

Writer, Director

To the Events in Transcaucasia

Writer, Director

Intonation. Yuri Schmidt

Summer of Maria Voynova

Director, Screenplay

Intonation. Valery Zorkin

The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky

Writer, Director

Intonation. Vladimir Yakunin

The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat

Writer, Director

Intonation. Arsen Kanokov

Intonation. Sergey Slonimsky

Intonation. Boris Averin

Elegy from Russia

Director, Screenplay

And Nothing More

The Diary of St. Petersburg: Mozart. Requiem

Rehearsal: Yuri Temirkanov

Director, Writer

The Ways of the World: Vol. 1

Production Consultant

The Life Of My Friend

Petersburg Diary: Kozintsev's Apartment

I Love You All Very Much...

Creative Producer

The Andrei Tarkovsky Companion

A Russian Youth

Creative Producer

Director's Diary

Director, Writer, Producer