Aleksandr Sokurov
Directing
Born June 14, 1951 in village Podorvikha, Irkutsk Region, RSFSR, USSR, (now Russia)
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
self
Director's Diary
Self
Gjirokastra
Russian Dreams
Fairytale
A Russian Youth
Voices in the Old Walls
The Life Of My Friend
Closeness
Go. Go. Go
Francofonia
(voice)
Voice of Sokurov
Himself
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
Himself - Filmmaker
Alexander Sokurov. Temptation
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
Self
Faust
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
Self
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Self
We Need Happiness
Narrator (voice)
The Art of Time
Self
Reading Book of Blockade
Elegy of a Voyage
The Traveler (uncredited)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree
Self
Rehearsal: Yuri Temirkanov
Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema
Himself
Alexandra
Boris Godounov
The Andrei Tarkovsky Companion
Sokurov
himself
Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya
Himself
The Sun
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Mozart. Requiem
Father and Son
In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark
Himself
Kira
Self
Russian Ark
The Time Traveller (voice / uncredited)
Taurus
Dolce
Moloch
The Knot
Self
Confession
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat
A Humble Life
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky
(voice)
Robert. A Fortunate Life
Narrator
Mother and Son
Edward Shelganov visiting Sokurov
Oriental Elegy
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Celebrate Cinema 101
Spiritual Voices
A Soldier's Dream
Whispering Pages
Elegy from Russia
Stone
To the Events in Transcaucasia
The Second Circle
Save and Protect
Simple Elegy
Leningrad Retrospective
Soviet Elegy
Narrator (voice)
Petersburg Elegy
Narrator
Days of Eclipse
Maria
I Love You All Very Much...
The Lonely Voice of Man
The Evening Sacrifice
Empire
Moscow Elegy
Narrator (voice)
Mournful Unconcern
And Nothing More
narrator (voice)
Elegy
Patience Labour
You Should Survive
Dmitri Shostakovich. Sonata for Viola
The Degraded
VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
Last Day of a Rainy Summer
Callsign R1NN
The Automobile Gains in Reliability