Known For
Directing
Born
Jun 14, 1951
Place of Birth
village Podorvikha, Irkutsk Region, RSFSR, USSR, (now Russia)
Credits
98 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
Naum. Predictions
self
Director's Diary
Self
Gjirokastra
Art Direction
Russian Dreams
Production Consultant
Fairytale
Director
A Russian Youth
Creative Producer
Voices in the Old Walls
The Life Of My Friend
Producer
Closeness
Producer
Go. Go. Go
Screenplay
Francofonia
(voice)
Voice of Sokurov
Himself
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
Himself - Filmmaker
Film about the film
himself
Alexander Sokurov. Temptation
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
Self
Faust
Director
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
Self
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Self
We Need Happiness
Narrator (voice)
Intonation. Yuri Schmidt
Director
Intonation. Sergey Slonimsky
Director
Intonation. Arsen Kanokov
Director
Intonation. Boris Averin
Director
Intonation. Vladimir Yakunin
Director
Intonation. Valery Zorkin
Director
The Ways of the World: Vol. 1
Director
Matussek trifft
Self
The Art of Time
Self
Reading Book of Blockade
Director
Deserto rosa. Luigi Ghirri
Screenplay
Elegy of a Voyage
The Traveler (uncredited)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree
Self
Rehearsal: Yuri Temirkanov
Director
Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema
Himself
Alexandra
Writer
Boris Godounov
Stage Director
The Andrei Tarkovsky Companion
Director
Sokurov
himself
Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya
Himself
The Sun
Director
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Mozart. Requiem
Director
Father and Son
Director
In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark
Himself
Kira
Self
Islands. Alexander Sokurov
Russian Ark
The Time Traveller (voice / uncredited)
Taurus
Director
Dolce
Director
Moloch
Director