Aleksandr Sokurov Movies

A civil and artistic statement about those who determined the fate of the planet: Stalin, Churchill, Mussolini, Hitler, according to a Russian...

A documentary grotesque in which even the walls speak. Famous directors of St. Petersburg cinema recall their lives and work, and images of old films...

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

A portrait of Naum Kleiman — film scholar, historian, and sage. In conversation with him, a vast cultural landscape unfolds, where Pushkin...

An encounter with the great Russian film director Alexander Sokurov, which gives rise to a lot of questions about his artistic stand and the problems...

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

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...

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

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

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 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 film about the work of Dinara Asanova, director at the Lenfilm film studio.

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

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

Film about the work of Ukrainian film director Kira Muratova.

TV version of the Opera "Boris Godunov" modest Mussorgsky staged by Director Alexander Sokurov at the Bolshoi Theater.

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...

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