14-06-1951
Birthday
Gemini
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
34
Total Films
Александр Сокуров, 알렉산드르 소쿠로프
Also known as (male)
village Podorvikha, Irkutsk Region, RSFSR, USSR, (now Russia)
Place of Birth
14-06-1951
Birthday
Gemini
Zodiac Sign
-
Genres
34
Total Films
Alexander Sokurov
Also Known As (male)
village Podorvikha, Irkutsk Region, RSFSR, USSR, (now Russia)
Place of Birth
actor
34 Works
producer
5 Works
director
110 Works
writer
32 Works
other
7 Works
The Last Days of Humanity
The panorama of human affairs encounters the “man with a movie camera”. His playground has no boundaries, his curiosity no limits. Characters, situations and places pitch camp in the life of a humanity that is at once the viewer and the thing viewed. But what are the last days of this humanity? Have they already passed? Are they now or still to come?Year:
2023
Francofonia
Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) transforms a portrait of the world-renowned museum into a magisterial, centuries-spanning reflection on the relation between art, culture and power.Year:
2015
Voice of Sokurov
Five years in the making, based on six lengthy interviews filmed on six different locations in Saint Petersburg, we meet an outspoken artist who covers here his entire life and prolific career. The locations were Sokurov’s own favourites, where he felt at home.Year:
2014
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
Yekaterinburg, Russia, July 17th, 1917. Czar Nicholas II Romanov and his entire family are brutally murdered by the Bolsheviks. This tragic event puts an end to the long dynasty that had ruled the country with an iron hand since the coronation of Michael I Romanov in 1613.Year:
2013
Film about the film
Documentary film from the set of Igor Olshansky’s debut short film “Easter”. Igor Olshansky is a participant of Alexander Sokurov’s programme “Example of Intonation”, a non-commercial film support foundation.Year:
2013
Alexander Sokurov. Temptation
The film is dedicated to the life and work of the Russian director, who deservedly received worldwide recognition due to his incredible talentYear:
2012
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
Agnès Varda travels around the world to meet friends, artists and filmmakers for an expansive view of the global contemporary art scene.Year:
2011
We Need Happiness
The life stories of two elderly women living in a remote region of Kurdish Iraq.Year:
2010
The Art of Time
Explores some of the most innovative attempts by contemporary artists, filmmakers, architects etc to explore multiple Temporalities and to counter the uniform sense of time promoted by our technology-driven society.Year:
2009
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree
The film is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn.Year:
2008
Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema
An encounter with the great Russian film director Alexander Sokurov, which gives rise to a lot of questions about his artistic stand and the problems he touches upon and resolves in his works. The film presents the director’s thoughts about the history of cinema, about the power of the sound and image, about the past and future of cinema, accompanied by fragments from his films and various archival materials.Year:
2008
Sokurov
Poetic portrait of a filmmaker. The famous director reflects on creativity and love. His friends and associates take part in the film: artist Vladimir Shinkarev, engineer Vladimir Nikolaev, actress Elena Kramer (Spiridonova), director, film critic Oleg Kovalov, necrorealist directors Yevgeny Yufit, Igor Bezrukov.Year:
2006
Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya
A documentary about the famous musician Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife, Galina Vishnevskaya.Year:
2006
In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark
Making of Russian Ark, with on camera personal views by members of the cast and crew of the major film.Year:
2003
Kira
Film about the work of Ukrainian film director Kira Muratova.Year:
2003
Russian Ark
A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.Year:
2002
Elegy of a Voyage
This intimately narrated journey from Russia to Rotterdam, via rail, road and Finnish ferry, is a melancholy meditation on divinity, time and place in art, purpose (or its lack) and the loneliness of the soul. Passing through misty snowscapes, half-glimpsed cities and the icy night sea-swell.Year:
2001
The Knot
The Dialogues with Solzhenitsyn is a two-part Russian television documentary by Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The documentary shot in Solzhenitsyn’s home shows his everyday life and covers his reflections on Russian history and literature.Year:
1998
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat
A documentary film about the Russian director Sergei Kosintsev.Year:
1998
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky
Petersburg Diary - Opening of the monument to DostoevskyYear:
1997
Robert. A Fortunate Life
Aleksander Sokurov brings the treasures of the Hermitage back into the light by making films about artists and their paintings. He has chosen the painter Hubert Robert, who spent a long time in Italy, and whose preference was for creating ancient ruined landscapes and naturalistic portrayals of times past. He was successful with the wealthy, who bought his works from him. The camera pans across the paintings while Sokurov speaks of a happy era, when the artist was at one with the spirit of the times, and agreed with the taste of his clients. Just how far removed from us this is, is shown by pictures of a "Nô" performance which are inter-cut on the screen. No words are necessary to describe what everybody knows today.Year:
1997
Edward Shelganov visiting Sokurov
Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov talks with the young director of independent experimental cinema Edward Shelganov.Year:
1997
Oriental Elegy
A surreal journey of a displaced spirit as he wanders in the interminable darkness through the temporal landscape of a quaint and isolated feudal-era fishing village. Guided by a series of faintly illuminated rooms, the wandering spirit comes upon ancient souls who take on physical forms as they recount their personal stories of daily existence, loss, and tragedy in the peasant community. Intrigued by his initial visit to a curiously distracted elderly woman, the spirit returns to her home in order to ask a fundamental question - "What is happiness?" - an existential query that is innocently answered with innate humility and accepted unknowingness.Year:
1996
A Soldier's Dream
This small film came out of the material edited for Sokurov's five-hour documentary Spiritual Voices.Year:
1995
An Example of Intonation
The second film by Sokurov featuring Boris Yeltsin as the principal character. Now he is the President of Russia, invested with power, bearing the full responsibility for the destinies of his distant compatriots as well as his closest kin and friends.Year:
1991
Simple Elegy
The office of the President of Lithuania, 1990. Inside, silence reigns, contrasting to the shouting of the crowds outside the windows of the governmental building. At the same time, this silence is mirrored by the intense silence of several women, whose faces remain on the screen for a long time. The silence is broken by music. The President plays the piano.Year:
1990
Leningrad Retrospective
A montage of Leningrad newsreel becomes a composite collage made up of documents-shots, divided in 16 parts, presenting the author's point of view on Russia and modern times. In the title, Sokurov appears as 'compiler' and the selection of the documents is just like an artistic process.Year:
1990
Soviet Elegy
In "The Soviet Elegy" the long train of photos of the Soviet leaders, dead or alive, stops at the portrait of Yeltsin. At the time of shooting Yeltsin had fallen down from the assembly of the Communist Party deities, and participated in the earthly life through connections of different kinds.Year:
1989
Petersburg Elegy
The story about the life of Shaliapin’s family, and an emotional generalization of the life of people in modern Leningrad.Year:
1989
Moscow Elegy
A 1988 documentary film directed by Alexander Sokurov, about the later life and death of Soviet Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. The film was originally intended to mark the 50th birthday of Tarkovsky in 1982, which would have been before his death. Controversy with Soviet authorities about the film's style and content led to significant delays in the production.Year:
1987
And Nothing More
The picture is about the anti-Hitler coalition of the USSR, England and America, which developed as a counterweight to the aggressive policy of Nazi Germany during the Second World War. The unique newsreel footage of these years, shot by operators of different warring countries, is connected with today's thoughts of the author about the fate of the post-war world, about the humanitarian losses of both sides and about gaining unstable hopes for the unity of the world in countering evil.Year:
1987
You Should Survive
1945, an attack aviation regiment is based at the field airfield, which is served by a team of young girls. The last days of the war are coming... In one of the battles, Lieutenant Volynin’s attack aircraft, damaged by a shell fragment, landed in territory occupied by the Germans. Air gunner Shchepov carried the wounded commander out of the burning plane. With the help of the Polish teacher Anna, they managed to get to theirs. And everyday life at the front began again. A few days before the Victory, Dima Shchepov died. Volynin took the death of his friend seriously. But it was even harder for him to learn about the death of Anna, whom he loved and whom he promised to find after the war...Year:
1981
VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
The story of VGIK teachers and students about the acting profession.Year:
1979
