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 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.
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Movies (46)
Naum. Predictions
as self
2026
Director's Diary
as Self
2025
Gjirokastra
Art Direction (Art)
2024
Russian Dreams
Production Consultant (Production)
2023
Fairytale
Director (Directing)
2022
A Russian Youth
Creative Producer (Writing)
2019
Voices in the Old Walls
2019
The Life Of My Friend
Producer (Production)
2017
Closeness
Producer (Production)
2017
Go. Go. Go
Screenplay (Writing)
2016
Francofonia
as (voice)
2015
Voice of Sokurov
as Himself
2014
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
as Himself - Filmmaker
2013
Film about the film
as himself
2013
Alexander Sokurov. Temptation
2012
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
as Self
2011
Faust
Director (Directing)
2011
We Need Happiness
as Narrator (voice)
2010
Intonation. Arsen Kanokov
Director (Directing)
2010
Intonation. Sergey Slonimsky
Director (Directing)
2010
Intonation. Valery Zorkin
Director (Directing)
2010
Intonation. Boris Averin
Director (Directing)
2010
Intonation. Vladimir Yakunin
Director (Directing)
2010
Intonation. Yuri Schmidt
Director (Directing)
2010
The Ways of the World: Vol. 1
Director (Directing)
2010
The Art of Time
as Self
2009
Reading Book of Blockade
Director (Directing)
2009
Elegy of a Voyage
as The Traveler (uncredited)
2009
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree
as Self
2008
Rehearsal: Yuri Temirkanov
Director (Directing)
2008
Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema
as Himself
2008
Alexandra
Director (Directing)
2007
Boris Godounov
Stage Director (Directing)
2007
The Andrei Tarkovsky Companion
Director (Directing)
2007
Sokurov
as himself
2006
Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya
as Himself
2006
The Sun
Director (Directing)
2005
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Mozart. Requiem
Director (Directing)
2004
Father and Son
Director (Directing)
2003
In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark
as Himself
2003
Kira
as Self
2003
Russian Ark
as The Time Traveller (voice / uncredited)
2002
Taurus
Director (Directing)
2001
Dolce
Director (Directing)
2000
Moloch
Director (Directing)
1999
The Knot
as Self
1998
