Aleksandr Sokurov
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
Credits
- 2023 · The Last Days of Humanity as Self (archive footage)
- 2015 · Francofonia as (voice)
- 2014 · Voice of Sokurov as Himself
- 2013 · The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars as Himself - Filmmaker
- 2013 · Film about the film as himself
- 2012 · Alexander Sokurov. Temptation as
- 2011 · Agnès Varda: From Here to There as
- 2011 · Agnès Varda: From Here to There as Self
- 2011 · The Story of Film: An Odyssey as Self
- 2010 · We Need Happiness as Narrator (voice)
- 2010 · Matussek trifft as Self
- 2009 · The Art of Time as Self
- 2008 · Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree as Self
- 2008 · Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema as Himself
- 2006 · Sokurov as himself
- 2006 · Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya as Himself
- 2003 · In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark as Himself
- 2003 · Kira as Self
- 2002 · Russian Ark as The Time Traveller (voice / uncredited)
- 2001 · Elegy of a Voyage as
- 1998 · The Knot as Self
- 1998 · The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat as
- 1997 · The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky as (voice)
- 1997 · Robert. A Fortunate Life as Narrator
- 1997 · Edward Shelganov visiting Sokurov as
- 1996 · Oriental Elegy as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
- 1995 · A Soldier's Dream as
- 1991 · An Example of Intonation as Self
- 1990 · Simple Elegy as
- 1990 · Leningrad Retrospective as
- 1989 · Soviet Elegy as Narrator (voice)
- 1989 · Petersburg Elegy as Narrator
- 1987 · Moscow Elegy as Narrator (voice)
- 1987 · And Nothing More as narrator (voice)
- 1981 · You Should Survive as
- Future · Наум. Клейма as Self
- Future · Петербургский дневник: Квартира Козинцева as рассказчик, озвучка, в титрах не указан