Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthdate
1951-06-14 (Age: 75)
Place of Birth
village Podorvikha, Irkutsk Region, RSFSR, USSR, (now Russia)
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 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.
Filmography (37)
Naum. Predictions
2026
Director's Diary
2025
Voices in the Old Walls
2019
Francofonia
2015
Voice of Sokurov
2014
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
2013Film about the film
2013
Alexander Sokurov. Temptation
2012
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
2011
We Need Happiness
2010
The Art of Time
2009
Elegy of a Voyage
2009
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree
2008
Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema
2008
