Aleksandr Sokurov
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
Naum. Predictions
2026
as self
Director's Diary
2025
as Self
Voices in the Old Walls
2019
Francofonia
2015
as (voice)
Voice of Sokurov
2014
as Himself
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
2013
as Himself - Filmmaker
- No poster
Film about the film
2013
as himself
Alexander Sokurov. Temptation
2012
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
2011
as Self
We Need Happiness
2010
as Narrator (voice)
The Art of Time
2009
as Self
Elegy of a Voyage
2009
as The Traveler (uncredited)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree
2008
as Self
Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema
2008
as Himself
Sokurov
2006
as himself
Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya
2006
as Himself
In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark
2003
as Himself
Kira
2003
as Self
- No poster
Islands. Alexander Sokurov
2003
Russian Ark
2002
as The Time Traveller (voice / uncredited)
The Knot
1998
as Self
- No poster
Petersburg Diary: Kozintsev's Apartment
1998
as рассказчик, озвучка, в титрах не указан
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat
1998
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky
1997
as (voice)