Aleksandr Sokurov
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...
Filmography
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
Director
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
Director
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
Director
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