
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, 알렉산드르 소쿠로프, Alexandre Nikolaïevitch 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.

Russian Ark
as The Time Traveller (voice / uncredited)

Voice of Sokurov
as Himself

Naum. Predictions
as self

Francofonia
as (voice)

The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
as Himself - Filmmaker

VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession

Soviet Elegy
as Narrator (voice)

Oriental Elegy
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Agnès Varda: From Here to There
as Self

Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema
as Himself

Moscow Elegy
as Narrator (voice)

Director's Diary
as Self

Voices in the Old Walls

You Should Survive

Elegy of a Voyage
as The Traveler (uncredited)

Kira
as Self

Sokurov
as himself

An Example of Intonation
as Self

We Need Happiness
as Narrator (voice)

Alexander Sokurov. Temptation

In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark
as Himself

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree
as Self

The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat

Robert. A Fortunate Life
as Narrator

Petersburg Elegy
as Narrator

The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky
as (voice)

Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya
as Himself

Islands. Alexander Sokurov

Leningrad Retrospective

Petersburg Diary: Kozintsev's Apartment
as рассказчик, озвучка, в титрах не указан

The Art of Time
as Self

The Knot
as Self

Simple Elegy

And Nothing More
as narrator (voice)

Edward Shelganov visiting Sokurov

A Soldier's Dream

Film about the film
as himself