Directing • AGE 75
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 contempl...


Naum. Predictions
self
2026

Director's Diary
Self
2025

Gjirokastra
Art Direction
2024

Russian Dreams
Production Consultant
2023

Fairytale
Director
2022

A Russian Youth
Creative Producer
2019

Voices in the Old Walls
2019

The Life Of My Friend
Producer
2017

Closeness
Producer
2017

Go. Go. Go
Screenplay
2016

Francofonia
(voice)
2015

Voice of Sokurov
Himself
2014

The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
Himself - Filmmaker
2013

Alexander Sokurov. Temptation
2012

Agnès Varda: From Here to There
Self
2011

Agnès Varda: From Here to There
Self
2011

Faust
Director
2011

The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Self
2011

We Need Happiness
Narrator (voice)
2010

The Art of Time
Self
2009

Reading Book of Blockade
Director
2009

Elegy of a Voyage
The Traveler (uncredited)
2009

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Lightning strikes a tall tree
Self
2008

Rehearsal: Yuri Temirkanov
Director
2008

Alexander Sokurov: Questions about cinema
Himself
2008

Alexandra
Writer
2007

Boris Godounov
Stage Director
2007

The Andrei Tarkovsky Companion
Director
2007

Sokurov
himself
2006

Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya
Himself
2006

The Sun
Director
2005

The Diary of St. Petersburg: Mozart. Requiem
Director
2004

Father and Son
Director
2003

In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark
Himself
2003

Kira
Self
2003

Russian Ark
The Time Traveller (voice / uncredited)
2002

Taurus
Director
2001

Dolce
Director
2000

Moloch
Director
1999

The Knot
Self
1998

Confession
Writer
1998

The Diary of St. Petersburg: Kozintsev's Flat
1998

A Humble Life
Director
1997

The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky
(voice)
1997

Robert. A Fortunate Life
Narrator
1997

Mother and Son
Director
1997

Edward Shelganov visiting Sokurov
1997

Oriental Elegy
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
1996

Celebrate Cinema 101
Director
1996

Spiritual Voices
Director
1995

A Soldier's Dream
1995

Whispering Pages
Screenplay
1994

Elegy from Russia
Director
1993

Stone
Director
1992

To the Events in Transcaucasia
Writer
1990

The Second Circle
Director
1990

Save and Protect
Director
1990

Simple Elegy
1990

Leningrad Retrospective
1990

Soviet Elegy
Narrator (voice)
1989

Petersburg Elegy
Narrator
1989

Days of Eclipse
Director
1988

Maria
Director
1988

I Love You All Very Much...
Creative Producer
1988

The Lonely Voice of Man
Director
1987

The Evening Sacrifice
Writer
1987

Empire
Director
1987

Moscow Elegy
Narrator (voice)
1987

Mournful Unconcern
Director
1987

And Nothing More
narrator (voice)
1987

Elegy
Director
1986

Patience Labour
Director
1985

You Should Survive
1981

Dmitri Shostakovich. Sonata for Viola
Director
1981

The Degraded
Writer
1980

VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
1979

Last Day of a Rainy Summer
Director
1979

Callsign R1NN
Director
1975

The Automobile Gains in Reliability
Director
1974