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Aleksandr Sokurov
village Podorvikha, Irkutsk Region, RSFSR, USSR, (now Russia)
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…
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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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2026
Naum. Predictions
Movie self
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2025
Director's Diary
Movie Self
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2024
Gjirokastra
Movie Art Direction
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2023
Russian Dreams
Movie Production Consultant
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2022
Fairytale
Movie Director
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2019
A Russian Youth
Movie Creative Producer
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2019
Voices in the Old Walls
Movie
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2017
The Life Of My Friend
Movie Producer
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2017
Closeness
Movie Producer
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2016
Go. Go. Go
Movie Screenplay
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2015
Francofonia
Movie (voice)
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2014
Voice of Sokurov
Movie Himself
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2013
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
Movie Himself - Filmmaker
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2013
Film about the film
Movie himself
- 2012
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2011
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
TV show Self
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2011
Faust
Movie Director
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2011
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
Movie Self
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2011
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
TV show Self
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2010
We Need Happiness
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2010
Intonation. Boris Averin
Movie Director
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2010
Intonation. Arsen Kanokov
Movie Director
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2010
Intonation. Yuri Schmidt
Movie Director
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2010
Intonation. Valery Zorkin
Movie Director
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2010
Intonation. Vladimir Yakunin
Movie Director
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2010
Intonation. Sergey Slonimsky
Movie Director
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2010
The Ways of the World: Vol. 1
Movie Director
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2010
Matussek trifft
TV show Self
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2009
The Art of Time
Movie Self
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2009
Reading Book of Blockade
Movie Director
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2009
Deserto rosa. Luigi Ghirri
Movie Screenplay
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2009
Elegy of a Voyage
Movie The Traveler (uncredited)
- 2008
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2008
Rehearsal: Yuri Temirkanov
Movie Director
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2008
Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema
Movie Himself
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2007
Alexandra
Movie Writer
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2007
Boris Godounov
Movie Stage Director
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2007
The Andrei Tarkovsky Companion
Movie Director
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2006
Sokurov
Movie himself
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2006
Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya
Movie Himself
