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.
Russian Ark
as The Time Traveller (voice / uncredited)A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering...
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Francofonia
as (voice)Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) transforms a portrait of the world-renowned...
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Agnès Varda: From Here to There
as SelfAgnès Varda travels around the world to meet friends, artists and filmmakers for an expansive...
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Moscow Elegy
as Narrator (voice)A 1988 documentary film directed by Alexander Sokurov, about the later life and death of Soviet...
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Voice of Sokurov
as HimselfFive years in the making, based on six lengthy interviews filmed on six different locations in...
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Elegy of a Voyage
as uncreditedThis intimately narrated journey from Russia to Rotterdam, via rail, road and Finnish ferry, is...
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The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
as Himself - FilmmakerYekaterinburg, Russia, July 17th, 1917. Czar Nicholas II Romanov and his entire family are...
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The Last Days of Humanity
as Self (archive footage)The panorama of human affairs encounters the “man with a movie camera”. His playground has no...
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Kira
as SelfFilm about the work of Ukrainian film director Kira Muratova.
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Petersburg Elegy
as NarratorThe story about the life of Shaliapin’s family, and an emotional generalization of the life of...
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A Soldier's Dream
as uncreditedThis small film came out of the material edited for Sokurov's five-hour documentary Spiritual...
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In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark
as HimselfMaking of Russian Ark, with on camera personal views by members of the cast and crew of the...
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The Knot
as SelfThe Dialogues with Solzhenitsyn is a two-part Russian television documentary by Russian...
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Robert. A Fortunate Life
as NarratorAleksander Sokurov brings the treasures of the Hermitage back into the light by making films...
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And Nothing More
as narrator (voice)The picture is about the anti-Hitler coalition of the USSR, England and America, which developed...
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Soviet Elegy
as Narrator (voice)In "The Soviet Elegy" the long train of photos of the Soviet leaders, dead or alive, stops at...
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The Art of Time
as SelfExplores some of the most innovative attempts by contemporary artists, filmmakers, architects...
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Leningrad Retrospective
as uncreditedA montage of Leningrad newsreel becomes a composite collage made up of documents-shots, divided...
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Oriental Elegy
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)A surreal journey of a displaced spirit as he wanders in the interminable darkness through the...
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Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya
as HimselfA documentary about the famous musician Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife, Galina Vishnevskaya.
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We Need Happiness
as Narrator (voice)The life stories of two elderly women living in a remote region of Kurdish Iraq.
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Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema
as HimselfAn encounter with the great Russian film director Alexander Sokurov, which gives rise to a lot...
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Sokurov
as himselfPoetic portrait of a filmmaker. The famous director reflects on creativity and love. His friends...
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree
as SelfThe film is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Russian writer...
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The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat
as uncreditedA documentary film about the Russian director Sergei Kosintsev.
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Edward Shelganov visiting Sokurov
as uncreditedAlexander Nikolayevich Sokurov talks with the young director of independent experimental cinema...
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The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky
as (voice)Petersburg Diary - Opening of the monument to Dostoevsky
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Simple Elegy
as uncreditedThe office of the President of Lithuania, 1990. Inside, silence reigns, contrasting to the...
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Alexander Sokurov. Temptation
as uncreditedThe film is dedicated to the life and work of the Russian director, who deservedly received...
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The Story of Film: An Odyssey
as SelfA worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made and the story of international cinema...
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Agnès Varda: From Here to There
as uncreditedAgnès Varda takes us on a journey of discovery as she travels the globe—from Stockholm to St....
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