Aleksandr Sokurov
Directing
40
Acting Credits
68
Directed
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 philos...
Known For
Filmography
Naum. Predictions
2026
as self
Director's Diary
2025
as Self
Voices in the Old Walls
2019
Francofonia
2015
as (voice)
Voice of Sokurov
2014
as Himself
Film about the film
2013
as himself
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
2013
as Himself - Filmmaker
Alexander Sokurov. Temptation
2012
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
2011
as Self
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
2011
as Self
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
2011
as Self
We Need Happiness
2010
as Narrator (voice)
Matussek trifft
2010
as Self
Elegy of a Voyage
2009
as The Traveler (uncredited)
The Art of Time
2009
as Self
Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema
2008
as Himself
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree
2008
as Self
Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya
2006
as Himself
Sokurov
2006
as himself
In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark
2003
as Himself
Kira
2003
as Self
Islands. Alexander Sokurov
2003
Russian Ark
2002
as The Time Traveller (voice / uncredited)
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat
1998
Petersburg Diary: Kozintsev's Apartment
1998
as рассказчик, озвучка, в титрах не указан
The Knot
1998
as Self
Edward Shelganov visiting Sokurov
1997
Robert. A Fortunate Life
1997
as Narrator
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky
1997
as (voice)
Oriental Elegy
1996
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
A Soldier's Dream
1995
An Example of Intonation
1991
as Self
Leningrad Retrospective
1990
Simple Elegy
1990
Petersburg Elegy
1989
as Narrator
Soviet Elegy
1989
as Narrator (voice)
And Nothing More
1987
as narrator (voice)
Moscow Elegy
1987
as Narrator (voice)
You Should Survive
1981
VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
1979