Aleksandr Sokurov Movies

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...

A requiem for a Russian peasant woman, Maria Semionovna Voinova. The film is in two chapters. The first chapter consists of an impression of Maria...

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...

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

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...

In "The Soviet Elegy" the long train of photos of the Soviet leaders, dead or alive, stops at the portrait of Yeltsin. At the time of shooting...

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

This small film came out of the material edited for Sokurov's five-hour documentary Spiritual Voices.

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

Making of Russian Ark, with on camera personal views by members of the cast and crew of the major film.

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

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

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...

Interesting short documentary on young athletes in a Soviet ice skating program, some of whom are barely past toddler age. Kinetic and up close, the...

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

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

Originally aired on Russian television, this five-part semi-documentary series tells the story of a Russian naval commander in charge of an...

A documentary about the famous musician Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife, Galina Vishnevskaya.

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