Aleksandr Sokurov
Directing
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.
Naum. Predictions
self
Director's Diary
Self
Voices in the Old Walls
Francofonia
(voice)
Voice of Sokurov
Himself
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
Himself - Filmmaker
Film about the film
himself
Alexander Sokurov. Temptation
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
Self
We Need Happiness
Narrator (voice)
The Art of Time
Self
Elegy of a Voyage
The Traveler (uncredited)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree
Self
Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema
Himself
Sokurov
himself
Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya
Himself
In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark
Himself
Kira
Self
Islands. Alexander Sokurov
Russian Ark
The Time Traveller (voice / uncredited)
The Knot
Self
Petersburg Diary: Kozintsev's Apartment
рассказчик, озвучка, в титрах не указан
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky
(voice)
Robert. A Fortunate Life
Narrator
Edward Shelganov visiting Sokurov
Oriental Elegy
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
A Soldier's Dream
An Example of Intonation
Self
Simple Elegy
Leningrad Retrospective
Soviet Elegy
Narrator (voice)
Petersburg Elegy
Narrator
Moscow Elegy
Narrator (voice)
And Nothing More
narrator (voice)
You Should Survive
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