Aleksandr Sokurov
Directing
Born June 14, 1951 · 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 t…
Known For · 40 titles
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Russian Ark
Director's Diary
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
Voice of Sokurov
Petersburg Diary: Kozintsev's Apartment
Naum. Predictions
Soviet Elegy
Francofonia
An Example of Intonation
Matussek trifft
Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema
Islands. Alexander Sokurov
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
Moscow Elegy
Elegy of a Voyage
Voices in the Old Walls
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
You Should Survive
Sokurov
The Art of Time
Petersburg Elegy
Kira
The Knot
Film about the film
Robert. A Fortunate Life
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree
In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark
And Nothing More
Leningrad Retrospective
Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya
Alexander Sokurov. Temptation
Oriental Elegy
A Soldier's Dream
Edward Shelganov visiting Sokurov
Simple Elegy
We Need Happiness