Directing · village Podorvikha, Irkutsk Region, RSFSR, USSR, (now Russia) · Born June 14, 1951
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.
MovieNaum. Predictions
2026
as self
MovieDirector's Diary
2025
as Self
MovieVoices in the Old Walls
2019
MovieFrancofonia
2015
as (voice)
MovieVoice of Sokurov
2014
as Himself
MovieThe Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
2013
as Himself - Filmmaker
Film about the film
2013
as himself
MovieAlexander Sokurov. Temptation
2012
TVAgnès Varda: From Here to There
2011
as Self
MovieAgnès Varda: From Here to There
2011
as Self
TVThe Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011
as Self
MovieWe Need Happiness
2010
as Narrator (voice)
Matussek trifft
2010
as Self
MovieThe Art of Time
2009
as Self
MovieElegy of a Voyage
2009
as The Traveler (uncredited)
MovieAleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree
2008
as Self
MovieAlexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema
2008
as Himself
MovieSokurov
2006
as himself
MovieElegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya
2006
as Himself
MovieIn One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark
2003
as Himself
MovieKira
2003
as Self
Islands. Alexander Sokurov
2003
MovieRussian Ark
2002
as The Time Traveller (voice / uncredited)
MovieThe Knot
1998
as Self
Petersburg Diary: Kozintsev's Apartment
1998
as рассказчик, озвучка, в титрах не указан
MovieThe Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat
1998
MovieThe Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky
1997
as (voice)
MovieRobert. A Fortunate Life
1997
as Narrator
MovieEdward Shelganov visiting Sokurov
1997
MovieOriental Elegy
1996
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
MovieA Soldier's Dream
1995
An Example of Intonation
1991
as Self
MovieSimple Elegy
1990
MovieLeningrad Retrospective
1990
MovieSoviet Elegy
1989
as Narrator (voice)
MoviePetersburg Elegy
1989
as Narrator
MovieMoscow Elegy
1987
as Narrator (voice)
MovieAnd Nothing More
1987
as narrator (voice)
MovieYou Should Survive
1981
MovieVGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
1979
