Aleksandr Sokurov
Directing
Born June 14, 1951 · 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.
Directed (67)
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
Documenta X - Die Filme
1997
A Humble Life
1997
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky
1997
Robert. A Fortunate Life
1997
Mother and Son
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
To the Events in Transcaucasia
1990
The Second Circle
1990
Save and Protect
1990
Simple Elegy
1990
Leningrad Retrospective
1990
Soviet Elegy
1989
Petersburg Elegy
1989
Sonata for Hitler
1989
Days of Eclipse
1988
Maria
1988
The Lonely Voice of Man
1987
The Evening Sacrifice
1987
Empire
1987
Moscow Elegy
1987
Mournful Unconcern
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 Automobile Gains in Reliability
1974
The Earthliest of Concerns
1974
Acting (37)
Naum. Predictions
2026
Director's Diary
2025
Voices in the Old Walls
2019
Francofonia
2015
Voice of Sokurov
2014
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
2013
Film about the film
2013
Alexander Sokurov. Temptation
2012
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
2011
We Need Happiness
2010
The Art of Time
2009
Elegy of a Voyage
2009
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree
2008
Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema
2008
Sokurov
2006
Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya
2006
In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark
2003
Kira
2003
Islands. Alexander Sokurov
2003
Russian Ark
2002
The Knot
1998
Petersburg Diary: Kozintsev's Apartment
1998
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat
1998
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky
1997
Robert. A Fortunate Life
1997
Edward Shelganov visiting Sokurov
1997
Oriental Elegy
1996
A Soldier's Dream
1995
