Aleksandr Sokurov
- Directing
- June 14, 1951 · village Podorvikha, Irkutsk Region, RSFSR, USSR, (now Russia)
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, Director
- Gjirokastra · Art Direction
- Russian Dreams · Production Consultant
- Fairytale · Director, Screenplay
- A Russian Youth · Creative Producer
- Voices in the Old Walls
- The Life Of My Friend · Producer
- Closeness · Producer
- Go. Go. Go · Screenplay, Director
- Francofonia · Voice, Director
- Voice of Sokurov · Self
- The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars · Self
- Film about the film · Self
- Alexander Sokurov. Temptation
- Agnès Varda: From Here to There · Self
- Faust · Director, Screenplay
- Agnès Varda: From Here to There · Self
- The Story of Film: An Odyssey · Self
- We Need Happiness · Narrator (Voice), Director
- Intonation. Yuri Schmidt · Director
- Intonation. Valery Zorkin · Director
- Intonation. Vladimir Yakunin · Director
- Intonation. Arsen Kanokov · Director
- Intonation. Sergey Slonimsky · Director
- Intonation. Boris Averin · 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), Director
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree · Self
- Rehearsal: Yuri Temirkanov · Director
- Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema · Self
- Alexandra · Writer, Director
- Boris Godounov · Stage Director
- The Andrei Tarkovsky Companion · Director
- Sokurov · Self
- Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya · Self, Director
- The Sun · Director, Cinematography
- The Diary of St. Petersburg: Mozart. Requiem · Director
- Father and Son · Director
- In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark · Self
- Kira · Self
- Islands. Alexander Sokurov
- Russian Ark · The Time Traveller (voice / uncredited), Director
- Taurus · Director, Cinematography
- Dolce · Director
- Moloch · Director
- The Knot · Self, Director
- Confession · Director, Writer
- Petersburg Diary: Kozintsev's Apartment · рассказчик, озвучка, в титрах не указан, Director
- The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat · Writer, Director
- Documenta X - Die Filme · Director
- A Humble Life · Director, Writer
- The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky · Voice, Writer
- Robert. A Fortunate Life · Narrator, Director
- Mother and Son · Director
- Edward Shelganov visiting Sokurov
- Oriental Elegy · Narrator (voice) (uncredited), Writer
- Celebrate Cinema 101 · Director
- Spiritual Voices · Director, Writer
- A Soldier's Dream · Director, Writer
- Whispering Pages · Screenplay, Director
- Elegy from Russia · Director, Screenplay
- Stone · Director
- An Example of Intonation · Self, Director
- To the Events in Transcaucasia · Writer, Director
- The Second Circle · Director
- Save and Protect · Director
- Simple Elegy · Director, Writer
- Leningrad Retrospective · Director
- Soviet Elegy · Narrator (Voice), Director
- Petersburg Elegy · Narrator, Director
- Sonata for Hitler · Director, Writer
- Days of Eclipse · Director
- Maria · Director, Writer
- I Love You All Very Much... · Creative Producer
- The Lonely Voice of Man · Director