Profile of Aleksandr Sokurov
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Aleksandr Sokurov

Born
1951-06-14
Birthplace
village Podorvikha,
Irkutsk Region
RSFSR
USSR
(now Russia)
Born
1951-06-14
Birthplace
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 contempl......

Profile of Aleksandr Sokurov

Aleksandr Sokurov

Born
1951-06-14
Birthplace
village Podorvikha, Irkutsk Region, RSFSR, USSR
(now Russia)
Born
1951-06-14
Birthplace
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.

95 titles with 153 credits

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The Story of Film: An Odyssey poster

2011

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Russian Ark poster

2002

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Faust poster

2011

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Closeness poster

2017

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Mother and Son poster

1997

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Francofonia poster

2015

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The Sun poster

2005

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Moloch poster

1999

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Alexandra poster

2007

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Father and Son poster

2003

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Fairytale poster

2022

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Taurus poster

2001

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Days of Eclipse poster

1988

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Whispering Pages poster

1994

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A Russian Youth poster

2019

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The Second Circle poster

1990

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The Lonely Voice of Man poster

1987

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Moscow Elegy poster

1987

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Agnès Varda: From Here to There poster

2011

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Stone poster

1992

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Save and Protect poster

1990

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Oriental Elegy poster

1996

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Sonata for Hitler poster

1989

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Spiritual Voices poster

1995

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Maria poster

1988

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Elegy of a Voyage poster

2009

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Mournful Unconcern poster

1987

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Soviet Elegy poster

1989

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In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark poster

2003

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Robert. A Fortunate Life poster

1997

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A Soldier's Dream poster

1995

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Empire poster

1987

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Dolce poster

2000

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The Evening Sacrifice poster

1987

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A Humble Life poster

1997

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Dmitri Shostakovich. Sonata for Viola poster

1981

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Patience Labour poster

1985

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Agnès Varda: From Here to There poster

2011

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Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya poster

2006

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Elegy from Russia poster

1993

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The Knot poster

1998

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Petersburg Elegy poster

1989

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And Nothing More poster

1987

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Reading Book of Blockade poster

2009

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The Degraded poster

1980

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Elegy poster

1986

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Callsign R1NN poster

1975

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Leningrad Retrospective poster

1990

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The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars poster

2013

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You Should Survive poster

1981

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The Diary of St. Petersburg: Mozart. Requiem poster

2004

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Simple Elegy poster

1990

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Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema poster

2008

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Voice of Sokurov poster

2014

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The Earthliest of Concerns poster

1974

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The Automobile Gains in Reliability poster

1974

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Confession poster

1998

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The Life Of My Friend poster

2017

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Documenta X - Die Filme poster

1997

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Last Day of a Rainy Summer poster

1979

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An Example of Intonation poster

1991

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Intonation. Boris Averin poster

2010

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Go. Go. Go poster

2016

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Naum. Predictions poster

2026

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Matussek trifft poster

2010

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VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession poster

1979

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Kira poster

2003

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The Art of Time poster

2009

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Voices in the Old Walls poster

2019

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Gjirokastra poster

2024

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Sokurov poster

2006

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree poster

2008

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Summer of Maria Voynova poster

1975

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Celebrate Cinema 101 poster

1996

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Boris Godounov poster

2007

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The Ways of the World: Vol. 1 poster

2010

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Petersburg Diary: Kozintsev's Apartment poster

1998

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The Andrei Tarkovsky Companion poster

2007

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Film about the film poster

2013

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The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat poster

1998

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We Need Happiness poster

2010

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The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky poster

1997

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Alexander Sokurov. Temptation poster

2012

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To the Events in Transcaucasia poster

1990

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Director's Diary poster

2025

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Rehearsal: Yuri Temirkanov poster

2008

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I Love You All Very Much... poster

1988

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Intonation. Yuri Schmidt poster

2010

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Intonation. Arsen Kanokov poster

2010

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Intonation. Vladimir Yakunin poster

2010

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Russian Dreams poster

2023

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Intonation. Valery Zorkin poster

2010

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Intonation. Sergey Slonimsky poster

2010

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Edward Shelganov visiting Sokurov poster

1997

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Islands. Alexander Sokurov poster

2003

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