Aleksandr Sokurov
Directing
- Born:
- 1951-06-14
- Place of birth:
- 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
Director's Diary
Voices in the Old Walls
Francofonia
Voice of Sokurov
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
Film about the film
Alexander Sokurov. Temptation
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
We Need Happiness
Matussek trifft
The Art of Time
Elegy of a Voyage
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree
Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema
Sokurov
Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya
In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark
Kira
Islands. Alexander Sokurov
Russian Ark
The Knot
Petersburg Diary: Kozintsev's Apartment
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky
Robert. A Fortunate Life
Edward Shelganov visiting Sokurov
Oriental Elegy
A Soldier's Dream
An Example of Intonation
Simple Elegy
Leningrad Retrospective
Soviet Elegy
Petersburg Elegy
Moscow Elegy
And Nothing More
You Should Survive
VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
Like a River’s Flow