Aleksandr Sokurov Movies

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

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

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

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

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 office of the President of Lithuania, 1990. Inside, silence reigns, contrasting to the shouting of the crowds outside the windows of the...

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

A montage of Leningrad newsreel becomes a composite collage made up of documents-shots, divided in 16 parts, presenting the author's point of view on...

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

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 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...

The painting tells about the difficult process of rehearsals under the guidance of a conductor.

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

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

The film is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the birth of the outstanding Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

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...

Poetic portrait of a filmmaker. The famous director reflects on creativity and love. His friends and associates take part in the film: artist...

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

A documentary film about the Russian director Sergei Kosintsev.