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Aleksandr Sokurov
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.
As director
Director's Diary
Fairytale
Go. Go. Go
Francofonia
Faust
We Need Happiness
Intonation. Arsen Kanokov
Intonation. Sergey Slonimsky
Intonation. Valery Zorkin
Intonation. Boris Averin
Intonation. Vladimir Yakunin
Intonation. Yuri Schmidt
The Ways of the World: Vol. 1
Reading Book of Blockade
Elegy of a Voyage
Rehearsal: Yuri Temirkanov
Alexandra
The Andrei Tarkovsky Companion
Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya
The Sun
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Mozart. Requiem
Father and Son
Russian Ark
Taurus
Dolce
Moloch
The Knot
Petersburg Diary: Kozintsev's Apartment
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat
Mother and Son
As actor
Naum. Predictions
Director's Diary
Voices in the Old Walls
Francofonia
Voice of Sokurov
Film about the film
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
Alexander Sokurov. Temptation
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
We Need Happiness
Elegy of a Voyage
The Art of Time
Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree
Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya
Sokurov
In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark
Kira
Islands. Alexander Sokurov
Russian Ark
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat
Petersburg Diary: Kozintsev's Apartment
The Knot
Edward Shelganov visiting Sokurov
Robert. A Fortunate Life
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky
Oriental Elegy
A Soldier's Dream
An Example of Intonation
Leningrad Retrospective