Aleksandr Sokurov
Born
June 14, 1951 (74 years old)
Known For
Directing
Place of Birth
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.
Known For
Naum. Premonitions
self
2025
The Last Days of Humanity
Self (archive footage)
2023
Voices in the Old Walls
2019
Francofonia
(voice)
2015
Voice of Sokurov
Himself
2014
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
Himself - Filmmaker
2013
Film about the film
himself
2013
Alexander Sokurov. Temptation
2012
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
Self · (1 episode)
2011
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
Self
2011
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Self · (1 episode)
2011
We Need Happiness
Narrator (voice)
2010
Matussek trifft
Self · (1 episode)
2010
The Art of Time
Self
2009
Elegy of a Voyage
The Traveler (uncredited)
2009
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree
Self
2008
Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema
Himself
2008
Sokurov
himself
2006
Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya
Himself
2006
In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark
Himself
2003
Kira
Self
2003
Russian Ark
The Time Traveller (voice / uncredited)
2002
The Knot
Self
1998
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat
1998
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky
(voice)
1997
Robert. A Fortunate Life
Narrator
1997
Edward Shelganov visiting Sokurov
1997
Oriental Elegy
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1996
A Soldier's Dream
1995
An Example of Intonation
Self
1991
Simple Elegy
1990
Leningrad Retrospective
1990
Soviet Elegy
Narrator (voice)
1989
Petersburg Elegy
Narrator
1989
Moscow Elegy
Narrator (voice)
1987
And Nothing More
narrator (voice)
1987
You Should Survive
1981
Петербургский дневник: Квартира Козинцева
рассказчик, озвучка, в титрах не указан
VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
1979