Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
6/14/1951
Place of Birth
village Podorvikha, Irkutsk Region, RSFSR, USSR, (now Russia)
Also Known As
Alexander SokurovАлександр Сокуров알렉산드르 소쿠로프
Aleksandr Sokurov
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 philosophical approach to history and nature. Sokurov underlines the importance of film, not to yield to t...
Known For
Francofonia
as (voice)
Voice of Sokurov
as Himself
Russian Ark
as The Time Traveller (voice / uncredited)
Elegy of a Voyage
as The Traveler (uncredited)
VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
Unknown Role
You Should Survive
Unknown Role
Director's Diary
as Self
Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya
as Himself
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
as Self
The Art of Time
as Self
Naum. Predictions
as self
Moscow Elegy
as Narrator (voice)
Voices in the Old Walls
Unknown Role
Robert. A Fortunate Life
as Narrator
Simple Elegy
Unknown Role
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
as Himself - Filmmaker
Oriental Elegy
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky
as (voice)
A Soldier's Dream
Unknown Role
The Knot
as Self