Cast
Aleksandr Sokurov
Directing
Cast
Aleksandr Sokurov
Known for
Directing
Born
1951-06-14
From
village Podorvikha, Irkutsk Region, RSFSR, USSR, (now Russia)
Also known as Alexander Sokurov, Alexandre Nikolaïevitch Sokourov, Aleksandr Sokourov
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.
MOVIE2026
Naum. Predictions
as self
★7.2
MOVIE2002
Russian Ark
as The Time Traveller (voice / uncredited)
MOVIE2025
Director's Diary
as Self
★5.0
MOVIE2008
Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema
as Himself
★5.2
MOVIE1989
Soviet Elegy
as Narrator (voice)
★6.5
MOVIE1987
Moscow Elegy
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE2003
Islands. Alexander Sokurov
★8.0
MOVIE1991
An Example of Intonation
as Self
★6.5
MOVIE2014
Voice of Sokurov
as Himself
★7.4
MOVIE2009
Elegy of a Voyage
as The Traveler (uncredited)
★6.5
MOVIE2015
Francofonia
as (voice)
MOVIE1998
Petersburg Diary: Kozintsev's Apartment
as рассказчик, озвучка, в титрах не указан
★7.6
MOVIE2011
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
as Self
MOVIE1979
VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
★6.2
MOVIE2013
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
as Himself - Filmmaker
★6.3
MOVIE1997
Robert. A Fortunate Life
as Narrator
MOVIE2019
Voices in the Old Walls
★6.2
MOVIE1996
Oriental Elegy
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
★7.3
MOVIE1998
The Knot
as Self
MOVIE2009
The Art of Time
as Self
★6.9
MOVIE2006
Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya
as Himself
★4.5
MOVIE1995
A Soldier's Dream
MOVIE2008
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree
as Self
MOVIE1998
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat
★5.2
MOVIE1987
And Nothing More
as narrator (voice)
MOVIE2013
Film about the film
as himself
★6.8
MOVIE2003
In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark
as Himself
★4.8
MOVIE1990
Leningrad Retrospective
★3.0
MOVIE1981
You Should Survive
MOVIE2010
We Need Happiness
as Narrator (voice)
MOVIE1997
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky
as (voice)
★6.0
MOVIE1989
Petersburg Elegy
as Narrator
MOVIE2003
Kira
as Self
★6.0
MOVIE1990
Simple Elegy
MOVIE2012
Alexander Sokurov. Temptation
MOVIE2006
Sokurov
as himself
MOVIE1997