Aleksandr Sokurov

ActorDirectorArtProductionWriter Jun 14 (age 74) village Podorvikha, Irkutsk Region, RSFSR, USSR, (now Russia) 1974–2026 (52 year career)

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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

Film

Russian Ark

The Time Traveller (voice / uncredited)

Film

Faust

Director

Film

Closeness

Producer

Film

Mother and Son

Director

Film

Francofonia

(voice)

Film

The Sun

Director

Film

Moloch

Director

Film

Fairytale

Director

Filmography

Acting (39)

Movies (36)

Naum. Predictions

2026

as self

Director's Diary

2025

as Self

Voices in the Old Walls

Francofonia

as (voice)

Voice of Sokurov

as Himself

Film about the film

as himself

The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars

2013

as Himself - Filmmaker

6.2

Alexander Sokurov. Temptation

2012

Agnès Varda: From Here to There

2011

as Self

7.6

We Need Happiness

2010

as Narrator (voice)

The Art of Time

2009

as Self

Elegy of a Voyage

2009

as The Traveler (uncredited)

7.2

Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema

2008

as Himself

5.0

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree

2008

as Self

Sokurov

2006

as himself

Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya

2006

as Himself

6.9

Kira

2003

as Self

In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark

2003

as Himself

6.7

Russian Ark

2002

as The Time Traveller (voice / uncredited)

7.2

Petersburg Diary: Kozintsev's Apartment

1998

as рассказчик, озвучка, в титрах не указан

The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat

1998

The Knot

1998

as Self

6.8

Edward Shelganov visiting Sokurov

1997

Robert. A Fortunate Life

1997

as Narrator

6.2

The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky

1997

as (voice)

Oriental Elegy

1996

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

6.1

A Soldier's Dream

1995

4.5

An Example of Intonation

as Self

Simple Elegy

Leningrad Retrospective

Petersburg Elegy

as Narrator

Soviet Elegy

as Narrator (voice)

And Nothing More

as narrator (voice)

Moscow Elegy

as Narrator (voice)

You Should Survive

VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession

1979

Television (3)

The Story of Film: An Odyssey

2011

as Self

7.7

Agnès Varda: From Here to There

2011

as Self

6.4

Matussek trifft

2010

as Self

Crew (84)

Movies (82)

Director's Diary

2025

Director

Gjirokastra

2024

Art Direction

Russian Dreams

2023

Production Consultant

Fairytale

Director

A Russian Youth

Creative Producer

The Life Of My Friend

Producer

Closeness

Producer

Go. Go. Go

Screenplay

Francofonia

Director

Faust

Director

Faust

Screenplay

We Need Happiness

Director

Intonation. Arsen Kanokov

2010

Director

Intonation. Sergey Slonimsky

2010

Director

Intonation. Vladimir Yakunin

2010

Director

Intonation. Boris Averin

2010

Director

3.0

Intonation. Yuri Schmidt

2010

Director

Intonation. Valery Zorkin

2010

Director

The Ways of the World: Vol. 1

2010

Director

Reading Book of Blockade

Director

Elegy of a Voyage

Director

Elegy of a Voyage

Writer

Rehearsal: Yuri Temirkanov

2008

Director

Boris Godounov

2007

Stage Director

Alexandra

2007

Director

6.0

The Andrei Tarkovsky Companion

2007

Director

Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya

Director

The Sun

Director

The Diary of St. Petersburg: Mozart. Requiem

Director

Father and Son

Director

Russian Ark

Dialogue

Russian Ark

Director

Russian Ark

Writer

Taurus

Director

Taurus

Director of Photography

Dolce

Director

Moloch

Director

Petersburg Diary: Kozintsev's Apartment

1998

Director

The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat

1998

Writer

Confession

Director

The Knot

Director

Robert. A Fortunate Life

Director

A Humble Life

Director

The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky

1997

Writer

Mother and Son

1997

Director

6.6

Documenta X - Die Filme

1997

Director

Oriental Elegy

1996

Writer

6.1

Celebrate Cinema 101

1996

Director

Spiritual Voices

Director

A Soldier's Dream

Director

Whispering Pages

Director

Elegy from Russia

Director

Elegy from Russia

Screenplay

Stone

Director

An Example of Intonation

Director

Save and Protect

Director

To the Events in Transcaucasia

1990

Writer

Simple Elegy

1990

Director

5.0

Leningrad Retrospective

Director

The Second Circle

Director

Petersburg Elegy

Director

Soviet Elegy

Director

Sonata for Hitler

Director

Sonata for Hitler

Writer

Days of Eclipse

Director

Maria

Director

I Love You All Very Much...

1988

Creative Producer

Empire

Director

And Nothing More

Director

Moscow Elegy

Director

The Evening Sacrifice

Writer

Mournful Unconcern

Director

The Lonely Voice of Man

Director

Elegy

Director

Patience Labour

Director

Dmitri Shostakovich. Sonata for Viola

Director

The Degraded

Director

Last Day of a Rainy Summer

1979

Director

3.0

Summer of Maria Voynova

1975

Director

Callsign R1NN

1975

Director

4.5

The Earthliest of Concerns

1974

Director

6.5

The Automobile Gains in Reliability

1974

Director

6.0

Television (2)

Confession

1998

Director

Confession

1998

Writer