Aleksandr Sokurov Movies

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

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

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

1945, an attack aviation regiment is based at the field airfield, which is served by a team of young girls. The last days of the war are coming... In...

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

Film about the work of Ukrainian film director Kira Muratova.

Inspired by Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Sokurov’s Save and Protect recalls the most crucial events of Emma’s decline and fall:...

Explores some of the most innovative attempts by contemporary artists, filmmakers, architects etc to explore multiple Temporalities and to counter...

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...

This film was Sokurov's first feature at Lenfilm, roughly based on a short story by the contemporary Soviet writer Grigory Baklanov about the...

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 film is dedicated to the life and work of the Russian director, who deservedly received worldwide recognition due to his incredible talent

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

Sokurov directed and filmed Mozart’s Requiem for the Rossica Choir in the wonderful hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic.

A young man was born in a small Russian city, but now lives in the Caucasus, in a foreign culture. He works as a mountain guide and enjoys life, but...

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

These images and sounds are poetic metaphors that transform “Elegy from Russia” into a document that provides a...

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

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...