Aleksandr Sokurov Movies

This intimately narrated journey from Russia to Rotterdam, via rail, road and Finnish ferry, is a melancholy meditation on divinity, time and place...

Albania in the 1960s, the city of Gjirokastra. Katya, a graduate of the Philology Department of Moscow State University, marries an Albanian, a young...

The action in this lavishly produced film takes place at an oddly ark-shaped mansion during World War I, and in spirit (although not in story) it...

The panorama of human affairs encounters the “man with a movie camera”. His playground has no boundaries, his curiosity no limits....

Via the New York Times: "...a severely obscure meditation on pre-revolutionary Russia in the form of an encounter between a ghost from the past and...

As with so many early films by Sokurov, this film has two dates: the first is the date of its creation (the film was then banned), the second is the...

The story of VGIK teachers and students about the acting profession.

Amateur actors read stories from a book describing the 900-day siege of Leningrad during World War II.

The Dialogues with Solzhenitsyn is a two-part Russian television documentary by Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The...

A 1988 documentary film directed by Alexander Sokurov, about the later life and death of Soviet Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. The film was...

Aleksander Sokurov brings the treasures of the Hermitage back into the light by making films about artists and their paintings. He has chosen the...

A Humble Life is certainly true to its title, a documentary study of the day-to-day world of Umeno Mathuyoshi, an old woman who lives in an isolated...

A surreal journey of a displaced spirit as he wanders in the interminable darkness through the temporal landscape of a quaint and isolated feudal-era...

The story about the life of Shaliapin’s family, and an emotional generalization of the life of people in modern Leningrad.

In 1994, Alexander Sokurov accompanied Russian troops assigned to a frontier military post at the Tajikistan/Afghanistan border to film their...

The life and work of the great Russian composer Dmitriy Shostakovich is presented in this documentary through rare images and audios from many...

A rich woman accidently comes across a conversation on the phone about people talking about a murder.

The manifestation and fireworks on the 1st of May, one of the ritual celebrations of Soviet times, as a gathering of tired participants of a mass...

A documentary portrait of Miho Shimao, widow of renowned Japanese writer Toshio Shimao.

This film project was made in 1996 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the cinema.