🎬 Movies Mates PEOPLE
Aleksandr Sokurov
Directing
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 i…
Read full 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.
Biography expanded
BODY OF WORK
Aleksandr Sokurov's Filmography
Select any movie to open its full Movies Mates details page.
Naum. Predictions
as self
Director's Diary
as Self
Voices in the Old Walls
Francofonia
as (voice)
Voice of Sokurov
as Himself
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
as Himself - Filmmaker
No Poster
Film about the film
as himself
Alexander Sokurov. Temptation
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
as Self
We Need Happiness
as Narrator (voice)
The Art of Time
as Self
Elegy of a Voyage
as The Traveler (uncredited)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree
as Self
Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema
as Himself
Sokurov
as himself
Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya
as Himself
In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark
as Himself
Kira
as Self
No Poster
Islands. Alexander Sokurov
Russian Ark
as The Time Traveller (voice / uncredited)
The Knot
as Self
No Poster
Petersburg Diary: Kozintsev's Apartment
as рассказчик, озвучка, в титрах не указан
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky
as (voice)
Robert. A Fortunate Life
as Narrator
Edward Shelganov visiting Sokurov
Oriental Elegy
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
A Soldier's Dream
No Poster
An Example of Intonation
as Self
Simple Elegy
Leningrad Retrospective
Soviet Elegy
as Narrator (voice)
Petersburg Elegy
as Narrator
Moscow Elegy
as Narrator (voice)
And Nothing More
as narrator (voice)
You Should Survive
VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
Like a River’s Flow
as as himself