About Aleksandr Sokurov
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…
Filmography37 films
Rank Aleksandr Sokurov's movies
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- Naum. Predictions2026
- Director's Diary2025
- Voices in the Old Walls2019
- Francofonia2015
- Voice of Sokurov2014
- The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars2013
- Film about the film2013
- Alexander Sokurov. Temptation2012
- We Need Happiness2010
- The Art of Time2009
- Elegy of a Voyage2009
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree2008
- Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema2008
- Sokurov2006
- Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya2006
- In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark2003
- Kira2003
- Islands. Alexander Sokurov2003
- Russian Ark2002
- The Knot1998
- Petersburg Diary: Kozintsev's Apartment1998
- The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat1998
- The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky1997
- Robert. A Fortunate Life1997
- Edward Shelganov visiting Sokurov1997
- Oriental Elegy1996
- A Soldier's Dream1995
- An Example of Intonation1991
- Simple Elegy1990
- Leningrad Retrospective1990
- Soviet Elegy1989
- Petersburg Elegy1989
- Moscow Elegy1987
- And Nothing More1987
- You Should Survive1981
- VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession1979
- Like a River’s FlowTBA

































