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.
68 directing credits · 40 acting credits
Directing · 68
Faust
2011
Russian Ark
2002
The Sun
2005
Mother and Son
1997
Francofonia
2015
Father and Son
2003
Taurus
2001
Moloch
1999
Days of Eclipse
1988
Mournful Unconcern
1987
Dmitri Shostakovich. Sonata for Viola
1981
Spiritual Voices
1995
Elegy of a Voyage
2009
Reading Book of Blockade
2009
Moscow Elegy
1987
Save and Protect
1990
Alexandra
2007
Confession
1998
Rehearsal: Yuri Temirkanov
2008
The Lonely Voice of Man
1987
Celebrate Cinema 101
1996
Sonata for Hitler
1989
The Ways of the World: Vol. 1
2010
Simple Elegy
1990
Whispering Pages
1994
And Nothing More
1987
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Mozart. Requiem
2004
The Andrei Tarkovsky Companion
2007
The Degraded
1980
The Second Circle
1990
To the Events in Transcaucasia
1990
Soviet Elegy
1989
Go. Go. Go
2016
A Soldier's Dream
1995
Elegy from Russia
1993
A Humble Life
1997
Maria
1988
Empire
1987
Robert. A Fortunate Life
1997
Director's Diary
2025
Elegy
1986
Intonation. Vladimir Yakunin
2010
Fairytale
2022
Documenta X - Die Filme
1997
Oriental Elegy
1996
The Evening Sacrifice
1987
Stone
1992
Summer of Maria Voynova
1975
Callsign R1NN
1975
Leningrad Retrospective
1990
Petersburg Elegy
1989
Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya
2006
The Knot
1998
Intonation. Sergey Slonimsky
2010
Dolce
2000
Petersburg Diary: Kozintsev's Apartment
1998
An Example of Intonation
1991
We Need Happiness
2010
Intonation. Boris Averin
2010
The Earthliest of Concerns
1974
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat
1998
Intonation. Arsen Kanokov
2010
Intonation. Yuri Schmidt
2010
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky
1997
Intonation. Valery Zorkin
2010
The Automobile Gains in Reliability
1974
Patience Labour
1985
Last Day of a Rainy Summer
1979
Acting · 40
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
2011
Russian Ark
2002
Voice of Sokurov
2014
You Should Survive
1981
Francofonia
2015
Matussek trifft
2010
Naum. Predictions
2026
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
2013
Voices in the Old Walls
2019
VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
1979
Elegy of a Voyage
2009
Moscow Elegy
1987
Kira
2003
Simple Elegy
1990
And Nothing More
1987
The Art of Time
2009
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
2011
Soviet Elegy
1989
Alexander Sokurov. Temptation
2012
A Soldier's Dream
1995
In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark
2003
Robert. A Fortunate Life
1997
Director's Diary
2025
Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema
2008
Oriental Elegy
1996
Leningrad Retrospective
1990
Petersburg Elegy
1989
Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya
2006
The Knot
1998
Petersburg Diary: Kozintsev's Apartment
1998
Sokurov
2006
An Example of Intonation
1991
We Need Happiness
2010
Film about the film
2013
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree
2008
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat
1998
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky
1997
Islands. Alexander Sokurov
2003
Edward Shelganov visiting Sokurov
1997