Aleksandr Sokurov
Birthday
1951/06/14 (73 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
village Podorvikha, Irkutsk Region, RSFSR, USSR, (now Russia)
Also know as
Alexander Sokurov, Александр Сокуров, 알렉산드르 소쿠로프
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...Read more
Acting
(1981) You Should Survive
as ---
(1998) The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat
as ---
(1987) And Nothing More
as narrator (voice)
(2002) Russian Ark
as The Time Traveller (voice / uncredited)
(1989) Petersburg Elegy
as Narrator
(1989) Soviet Elegy
as Narrator (voice)
(2012) Alexander Sokurov. Temptation
as ---
(2006) Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya
as Himself
(1997) Edward Shelganov visiting Sokurov
as ---
(2014) Voice of Sokurov
as Himself
(2003) In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark
as Himself
(2023) The Last Days of Humanity
as Self (archive footage)
(2010) We Need Happiness
as Narrator (voice)
(1991) An Example of Intonation
as Self
(2008) Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema
as Himself
(1997) Robert. A Fortunate Life
as Narrator
Петербургский дневник: Квартира Козинцева
as рассказчик, озвучка, в титрах не указан
(2015) Francofonia
as (voice)
(2003) Kira
as Self
(2013) Film about the film
as himself
(2001) Elegy of a Voyage
as ---
(1998) The Knot
as Self
(2006) Sokurov
as himself
(1996) Oriental Elegy
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
(1990) Leningrad Retrospective
as ---
(1997) The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky
as (voice)
(2013) The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
as Himself - Filmmaker
(1990) Simple Elegy
as ---
(1987) Moscow Elegy
as Narrator (voice)
(1995) A Soldier's Dream
as ---
(2011) Agnès Varda: From Here to There
as Self
(2009) The Art of Time
as Self
(2008) Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree
as Self
(1979) VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
as ---
(2011) The Story of Film: An Odyssey
as Self
(2011) Agnès Varda: From Here to There
as ---
(2010) Matussek trifft
as Self