Aleksandr Sokurov Movies

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

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

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

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

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...

A document on the daily life of an ordinary collective farm of the U.S.S.R. in 1978 : the hard-working people who love their work just because they...

Yekaterinburg, Russia, July 17th, 1917. Czar Nicholas II Romanov and his entire family are brutally murdered by the Bolsheviks. This tragic event...

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

The second film by Sokurov featuring Boris Yeltsin as the principal character. Now he is the President of Russia, invested with power, bearing the...

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

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

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

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

A documentary film about the Russian director Sergei Kosintsev.

A collection of six documentary films featuring various locations and cultures of the world, screened at the Musée du Quai Branly from 18-23...

This film was created by Sokurov before or during his VGIK student years for the regional TV of Gorki. He does not consider it a part of his...

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...

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