Aleksandr Sokurov
Directing
Born: 1951-06-14 in village Podorvikha, Irkutsk Region, RSFSR, USSR, (now Russia)
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.
Known For
Russian Ark
The Time Traveller (voice / uncredited)
Francofonia
(voice)
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Self
Moscow Elegy
Narrator (voice)
Oriental Elegy
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Elegy of a Voyage
The Traveler (uncredited)
Soviet Elegy
Narrator (voice)
Robert. A Fortunate Life
Narrator
In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark
Himself
A Soldier's Dream
Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya
Himself
The Knot
Self
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
Self
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
Self
And Nothing More
narrator (voice)
Petersburg Elegy
Narrator
Leningrad Retrospective
You Should Survive
Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema
Himself
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
Himself - Filmmaker
Simple Elegy
Voice of Sokurov
Himself
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat
Alexander Sokurov. Temptation
Edward Shelganov visiting Sokurov
We Need Happiness
Narrator (voice)
Kira
Self
Sokurov
himself
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky
(voice)
The Art of Time
Self
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree
Self
VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
Voices in the Old Walls
Naum. Predictions
self
Director's Diary
Self
Islands. Alexander Sokurov
Like a River’s Flow
as himself