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.
Movie | The Last Days of Humanity | Self (archive footage) | 2023-05-08 |
Movie | Francofonia | (voice) | 2015-11-11 |
Movie | Voice of Sokurov | Himself | 2014-06-14 |
Movie | Film about the film | himself | 2013-06-05 |
Movie | The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars | Himself - Filmmaker | 2013-09-01 |
Movie | Agnès Varda: From Here to There | Self | 2011-10-01 |
Series | Agnès Varda: From Here to There | Unknown | 2011-12-19 |
Movie | We Need Happiness | Narrator (voice) | 2010-10-20 |
Movie | The Art of Time | Self | 2009-10-10 |
Movie | Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema | Himself | 2008-01-01 |
Movie | Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree | Self | 2008-12-11 |
Movie | Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya | Himself | 2006-04-21 |
Movie | Sokurov | himself | 2006-11-18 |
Movie | Kira | Self | 2003-06-15 |
Movie | In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark | Himself | 2003-09-09 |
Movie | Russian Ark | The Time Traveller (voice / uncredited) | 2002-05-22 |
Movie | Elegy of a Voyage | 2001-06-01 | |
Movie | The Knot | Self | 1998-12-04 |
Movie | The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky | (voice) | 1997-04-04 |
Movie | Robert. A Fortunate Life | Narrator | 1997-04-01 |
Movie | Oriental Elegy | Narrator (voice) (uncredited) | 1996-04-26 |
Movie | A Soldier's Dream | 1995-06-29 | |
Movie | An Example of Intonation | Self | 1991-01-01 |
Movie | Leningrad Retrospective | 1990-01-01 | |
Movie | Simple Elegy | 1990-02-03 | |
Movie | Petersburg Elegy | Narrator | 1989-11-29 |
Movie | Soviet Elegy | Narrator (voice) | 1989-12-31 |
Movie | Moscow Elegy | Narrator (voice) | 1987-04-04 |
Movie | You Should Survive | 1981-05-01 |