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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.
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A worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made and the story of international cinema through the hist...
A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many d...
Agnès Varda takes us on a journey of discovery as she travels the globe—from Stockholm to St. Petersburg, Lisbo...
A documentary grotesque in which even the walls speak. Famous directors of St. Petersburg cinema recall their l...
Five years in the making, based on six lengthy interviews filmed on six different locations in Saint Petersburg...
This intimately narrated journey from Russia to Rotterdam, via rail, road and Finnish ferry, is a melancholy me...
The story of VGIK teachers and students about the acting profession.
Yekaterinburg, Russia, July 17th, 1917. Czar Nicholas II Romanov and his entire family are brutally murdered by...
Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) transforms a portrait of the world-renowned museum into a magi...
A portrait of Naum Kleiman — film scholar, historian, and sage. In conversation with him, a vast cultural lands...
1945, an attack aviation regiment is based at the field airfield, which is served by a team of young girls. The...
A 1988 documentary film directed by Alexander Sokurov, about the later life and death of Soviet Russian filmmak...
Explores some of the most innovative attempts by contemporary artists, filmmakers, architects etc to explore mu...
The picture is about the anti-Hitler coalition of the USSR, England and America, which developed as a counterwe...
Film about the work of Ukrainian film director Kira Muratova.
Agnès Varda travels around the world to meet friends, artists and filmmakers for an expansive view of the globa...
Aleksander Sokurov brings the treasures of the Hermitage back into the light by making films about artists and...
The office of the President of Lithuania, 1990. Inside, silence reigns, contrasting to the shouting of the crow...
In "The Soviet Elegy" the long train of photos of the Soviet leaders, dead or alive, stops at the portrait of Y...
This small film came out of the material edited for Sokurov's five-hour documentary Spiritual Voices.
The film is dedicated to the life and work of the Russian director, who deservedly received worldwide recogniti...
Making of Russian Ark, with on camera personal views by members of the cast and crew of the major film.
From 1961 to 1995, Alexander Sokurov kept a personal diary, recording both important events and everyday trivia...
A surreal journey of a displaced spirit as he wanders in the interminable darkness through the temporal landsca...
A documentary film about the Russian director Sergei Kosintsev.
A documentary about the famous musician Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife, Galina Vishnevskaya.
The second film by Sokurov featuring Boris Yeltsin as the principal character. Now he is the President of Russi...
A montage of Leningrad newsreel becomes a composite collage made up of documents-shots, divided in 16 parts, pr...
The life stories of two elderly women living in a remote region of Kurdish Iraq.
Documentary film from the set of Igor Olshansky’s debut short film “Easter”. Igor Olshansky is a participant of...
The story about the life of Shaliapin’s family, and an emotional generalization of the life of people in modern...
The second film of Alexander Sokurov's documentary series "Petersburg Diary" is dedicated to the outstanding So...
An encounter with the great Russian film director Alexander Sokurov, which gives rise to a lot of questions abo...
Petersburg Diary - Opening of the monument to Dostoevsky
The Dialogues with Solzhenitsyn is a two-part Russian television documentary by Russian filmmaker Alexander Sok...