Aleksandr Sokurov
Known for: Directing
Born: June 14, 1951
Place of birth: village Podorvikha, Irkutsk Region, RSFSR, USSR, (now Russia)
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.
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Filmography
93 movies · 4 TV shows, newest first
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Naum. Predictions
2026
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Director's Diary
2025
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Gjirokastra
2024
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Russian Dreams
2023
6.7
Fairytale
2022
5.2
A Russian Youth
2019
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Voices in the Old Walls
2019
5.0
The Life Of My Friend
2017
6.7
Closeness
2017
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Go. Go. Go
2016
6.5
Francofonia
2015
6.5
Voice of Sokurov
2014
6.2
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
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Film about the film
2013
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Alexander Sokurov. Temptation
2012
6.5
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
2011
6.6
Faust
2011
7.6
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
2011
7.7
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011
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We Need Happiness
2010NR
Intonation. Yuri Schmidt
2010NR
Intonation. Valery Zorkin
2010NR
Intonation. Vladimir Yakunin
2010NR
Intonation. Arsen Kanokov
2010NR
Intonation. Sergey Slonimsky
20103.0
Intonation. Boris Averin
2010NR
The Ways of the World: Vol. 1
2010NR
Matussek trifft
2010
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The Art of Time
2009
4.5
Reading Book of Blockade
2009
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Deserto rosa. Luigi Ghirri
2009
7.4
Elegy of a Voyage
2009
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree
2008
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Rehearsal: Yuri Temirkanov
2008
5.0
Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema
2008
6.1
Alexandra
2007
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Boris Godounov
2007
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The Andrei Tarkovsky Companion
2007
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Sokurov
2006
6.9
Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya
2006
6.7
The Sun
2005
8.0
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Mozart. Requiem
2004
5.6
Father and Son
2003
6.8
In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark
2003
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Kira
2003NR
Islands. Alexander Sokurov
2003
7.2
Russian Ark
2002
5.8
Taurus
2001
6.5
Dolce
2000
6.2
Moloch
1999
7.3
The Knot
1998
9.0
Confession
1998NR
Petersburg Diary: Kozintsev's Apartment
1998
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The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat
199810.0
Documenta X - Die Filme
1997
6.5
A Humble Life
1997
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The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky
1997
6.2
Robert. A Fortunate Life
1997
6.6
Mother and Son
1997
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Edward Shelganov visiting Sokurov
1997
6.2
Oriental Elegy
1996
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Celebrate Cinema 101
1996
6.0
Spiritual Voices
1995
4.5
A Soldier's Dream
1995
6.2
Whispering Pages
1994
6.3
Elegy from Russia
1993
5.1
Stone
19928.0
An Example of Intonation
1991
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To the Events in Transcaucasia
1990
6.5
The Second Circle
1990
5.0
Save and Protect
1990
6.0
Simple Elegy
1990
4.8
Leningrad Retrospective
1990
5.2
Soviet Elegy
1989
6.0
Petersburg Elegy
19895.0
Sonata for Hitler
1989
5.8
Days of Eclipse
1988
5.9
Maria
1988
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I Love You All Very Much...
1988
5.6
The Lonely Voice of Man
1987
4.4
The Evening Sacrifice
1987
5.0
Empire
1987
6.5
Moscow Elegy
1987
4.5
Mournful Unconcern
1987
5.2
And Nothing More
1987
6.3
Elegy
1986
4.0
Patience Labour
1985
3.0
You Should Survive
1981
5.4
Dmitri Shostakovich. Sonata for Viola
1981
6.3
The Degraded
1980
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VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
1979
5.0
Last Day of a Rainy Summer
1979
4.5
Callsign R1NN
1975NR
Summer of Maria Voynova
1975
6.0
The Automobile Gains in Reliability
19746.5
The Earthliest of Concerns
1974
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Like a River’s Flow
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