Aleksandr Sokurov
Born: 1951-06-14 in village Podorvikha, Irkutsk Region, RSFSR, USSR, (now Russia)
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2026
- Naum. Predictions as self
2025
- Director's Diary as Self
2024
- Gjirokastra ... (Art Direction)
2023
- Russian Dreams ... (Production Consultant)
2022
- Fairytale ... (Director)
2019
- A Russian Youth ... (Creative Producer)
- Voices in the Old Walls
2017
- Closeness ... (Producer)
- The Life Of My Friend ... (Producer)
2016
- Go. Go. Go ... (Screenplay)
2015
- Francofonia as (voice)
2014
- Voice of Sokurov as Himself
2013
- The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars as Himself - Filmmaker
- Film about the film as himself
2011
- The Story of Film: An Odyssey as Self
- Faust ... (Director)
- Agnès Varda: From Here to There as Self
- Agnès Varda: From Here to There as Self
2010
- Matussek trifft as Self
- The Ways of the World: Vol. 1 ... (Director)
- We Need Happiness as Narrator (voice)
- Intonation. Valery Zorkin ... (Director)
- Intonation. Arsen Kanokov ... (Director)
- Intonation. Sergey Slonimsky ... (Director)
- Intonation. Vladimir Yakunin ... (Director)
- Intonation. Boris Averin ... (Director)
- Intonation. Yuri Schmidt ... (Director)
2009
- Deserto rosa. Luigi Ghirri ... (Screenplay)
- The Art of Time as Self
- Reading Book of Blockade ... (Director)
- Elegy of a Voyage as The Traveler (uncredited)
2008
- Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema as Himself
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree as Self
- Rehearsal: Yuri Temirkanov ... (Director)
2007
- Alexandra ... (Writer)
- The Andrei Tarkovsky Companion ... (Director)
- Boris Godounov ... (Stage Director)
2006
- Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya as Himself
- Sokurov as himself
2005
- The Sun ... (Director)
2004
- The Diary of St. Petersburg: Mozart. Requiem ... (Director)
2003
- Father and Son ... (Director)
- In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark as Himself
- Kira as Self
- Islands. Alexander Sokurov
2002
- Russian Ark as The Time Traveller (voice / uncredited)
2001
- Taurus ... (Director)
2000
- Dolce ... (Director)
1999
- Moloch ... (Director)
1998
- Confession ... (Writer)
- Petersburg Diary: Kozintsev's Apartment as рассказчик, озвучка, в титрах не указан
- The Knot as Self
- The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat
1997
- Mother and Son ... (Director)
- Documenta X - Die Filme ... (Director)
- Robert. A Fortunate Life as Narrator
- The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky as (voice)
- A Humble Life ... (Director)
- Edward Shelganov visiting Sokurov
1996
- Celebrate Cinema 101 ... (Director)
- Oriental Elegy as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1995
- Spiritual Voices ... (Director)
- A Soldier's Dream
1994
- Whispering Pages ... (Director)
1993
- Elegy from Russia ... (Director)
1992
- Stone ... (Director)
1991
- An Example of Intonation as Self
1990
- The Second Circle ... (Director)
- Save and Protect ... (Director)
- Leningrad Retrospective
- To the Events in Transcaucasia ... (Writer)
- Simple Elegy
1989
- Soviet Elegy as Narrator (voice)
- Sonata for Hitler ... (Director)
- Petersburg Elegy as Narrator
1988
- Days of Eclipse ... (Director)
- Maria ... (Director)
- I Love You All Very Much... ... (Creative Producer)
1987
- The Lonely Voice of Man ... (Director)
- Moscow Elegy as Narrator (voice)
- Mournful Unconcern ... (Director)
- Empire ... (Director)
- And Nothing More as narrator (voice)
- The Evening Sacrifice ... (Writer)
1986
- Elegy ... (Director)
1985
- Patience Labour ... (Director)
1981
- Dmitri Shostakovich. Sonata for Viola ... (Director)
- You Should Survive
1980
- The Degraded ... (Director)
1979
1975
- Summer of Maria Voynova ... (Director)
- Callsign R1NN ... (Director)
1974
- The Automobile Gains in Reliability ... (Director)
- The Earthliest of Concerns ... (Director)