Aleksandr Sokurov
Directing
1951-06-14 · 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.
movieNaum. Predictions
as self · 2026 · 0.0
movieDirector's Diary
as Self · 2025 · 0.0
movieVoices in the Old Walls
as · 2019 · 0.0
movieFrancofonia
as (voice) · 2015 · 6.5
movieVoice of Sokurov
as Himself · 2014 · 6.5
movieThe Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
as Himself - Filmmaker · 2013 · 6.2
movieFilm about the film
as himself · 2013 · 0.0
movieAlexander Sokurov. Temptation
as · 2012 · 0.0
tvAgnès Varda: From Here to There
as Self · 2011 · 6.5
movieAgnès Varda: From Here to There
as Self · 2011 · 7.6
tvThe Story of Film: An Odyssey
as Self · 2011 · 7.7
movieWe Need Happiness
as Narrator (voice) · 2010 · 0.0
tvMatussek trifft
as Self · 2010 · 0.0
movieThe Art of Time
as Self · 2009 · 0.0
movieElegy of a Voyage
as The Traveler (uncredited) · 2009 · 7.4
movieAleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree
as Self · 2008 · 0.0
movieAlexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema
as Himself · 2008 · 5.0
movieSokurov
as himself · 2006 · 0.0
movieElegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya
as Himself · 2006 · 6.9
movieIn One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark
as Himself · 2003 · 6.8
movieKira
as Self · 2003 · 0.0
movieIslands. Alexander Sokurov
as · 2003 · 0.0
movieRussian Ark
as The Time Traveller (voice / uncredited) · 2002 · 7.2
movieThe Knot
as Self · 1998 · 7.3