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Aleksandr Sokurov

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Creator of the first "unedited" film, with a continuous shot lasting around 90 minutes. He was born with a disability because of an anatomic defect of his leg, in 1951 in Podorvikha village in Siberian Russia. His father was a Red Army veteran of WW2. One of most important contemporary filmmakers, Sokurov worked extensively in television and later graduated from the prestigious film school... See full bio »

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Aleksandr Nikolaevich Sokurov
in Podorvikha, Irkutskaya oblast, RSFSR, USSR (now Russia)
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2011/III Faust
 
2010 Intonatsiya. Vladimir Yakunin (documentary)
 
2010 Intonatsiya. Yuri Shmidt (documentary short)
 
2010 Intonatsiya. Boris Averin (documentary short)
 
2010 Intonatsiya. Arsen Kanokov (documentary short)
 
2010 Intonatsiya. Sergei Slonimsky (documentary short)
 
2010 Intonatsiya. Valery Zorkin (documentary)
 
2009 Reading Book of Blockade (documentary)
 
2008 Cinema16: World Short Films (video)
 
2007 Alexandra
 
2006 Elegiya zhizni. Rostropovich. Vishnevskaya. (documentary)
 
2005 The Sun
 
2004 The Diary of St. Petersburg: Mozart. Requiem (TV documentary)
 
2003 Father and Son
 
2002 Russian Ark
 
2001 Elegy of a Voyage
 
2001 Taurus
 
2000 Dolce... (documentary)
 
2000 The Dialogues with Solzhenitsyn (documentary)
 
1999 Robert. A Fortunate Life (short)
 
1999 Moloch
 
1998 The Diary of St. Petersburg. Kozintsev's Flat (TV documentary)
 
1998 Confession (TV mini-series documentary)
 
1997 Documenta X - Die Filme
 
1997 A Humble Life (documentary)
 
1997 Mother and Son
 
1997 The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky (TV documentary)
 
1996 Vostochnaya elegiya (short)
 
1995 Dukhovnye golosa. Iz dnevnikov voyny. Povestvovanie v pyati chastyakh (documentary)
 
1995 Soldier's Dream (documentary short)
 
1994 Whispering Pages
 
1993 Elegiya iz Rossii
 
1992 Kamen
 
1990 The Second Circle
 
1990 To the Events in Transcaucasia (documentary short)
 
1990 A Retrospection of Leningrad (1957-1990) (documentary)
 
1990 A Simple Elegy (documentary short)
 
1989 Maria (short)
 
1989 The Lonely Voice of Man
 
1989 Peterburgskaya elegiya (documentary short)
 
1989 Sonata dlya Gitlera (documentary short)
 
1989 Soviet Elegy (short)
 
1989 Madame Bovary
 
1988 Zhertva vechernyaya (short)
 
1988 Days of Eclipse
 
1987 Mournful Unconcern
 
1987 Ampir (short)
 
1987 I nichego bolshe
 
1987 Moskovskaya elegiya (documentary)
 
1987 Patience Labour (short)
 
1986 Elegiya (documentary short)
 
1981 Altovaya sonata. Dmitriy Shostakovich (documentary)
 
1980 The Degraded (short)
 
1979 Posledni den' nenastnogo leta (documentary short)
 
1975 Mariya (TV short)
 
1975 Pozyvnye R1NN (TV documentary)
 
1974 Avtomobil nabiraet nadezhnost (TV documentary short) (as A. Sokurov)
 
1974 Samye zemnye zaboty (TV documentary)
 
Show ShowWriter (30 titles)
2011/III Faust (screenplay)
 
2010 Intonatsiya. Vladimir Yakunin (documentary)
 
2010 Intonatsiya. Yuri Shmidt (documentary short)
 
2010 Intonatsiya. Boris Averin (documentary short)
 
2010 Intonatsiya. Arsen Kanokov (documentary short)
 
2010 Intonatsiya. Sergei Slonimsky (documentary short)
 
2010 Intonatsiya. Valery Zorkin (documentary)
 
2009 Deserto rosa. Luigi Ghirri (text)
 
2007 Alexandra
 
2006 Elegiya zhizni. Rostropovich. Vishnevskaya. (documentary)
 
2004 The Diary of St. Petersburg: Mozart. Requiem (TV documentary)
 
2002 Russian Ark (dialogue / written by)
 
2001 Elegy of a Voyage
 
2000 Dolce... (documentary)
 
1999 Robert. A Fortunate Life (short) (writer)
 
1998 The Diary of St. Petersburg. Kozintsev's Flat (TV documentary) (commentary)
 
1998 Confession (TV mini-series documentary) (writer)
 
1997 A Humble Life (documentary)
 
1997 The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky (TV documentary)
 
1996 Vostochnaya elegiya (short)
 
1995 Dukhovnye golosa. Iz dnevnikov voyny. Povestvovanie v pyati chastyakh (documentary)
 
1995 Soldier's Dream (documentary short)
 
1994 Whispering Pages
 
1993 Elegiya iz Rossii
 
1990 To the Events in Transcaucasia (documentary short)
 
1987 Ampir (short)
 
1980 The Degraded (short)
 
1979 Posledni den' nenastnogo leta (documentary short)
 
1975 Mariya (TV short) (written by / as A. Sokurov)
 
1974 Samye zemnye zaboty (TV documentary)
 
Show ShowActor (7 titles)
2002 Russian Ark
The Time Traveller (voice) (uncredited)
 
2001 Elegy of a Voyage
Narrator (voice)
 
1999 Robert. A Fortunate Life (short)
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
 
1996 Vostochnaya elegiya (short)
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
 
1989 Soviet Elegy (short)
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
 
1987 I nichego bolshe
Narrator (voice)
 
1980 Ty dolzhen zhit
 
Show ShowMiscellaneous Crew (2 titles)
2007 Boris Godunov (TV movie) (staged by)
 
2002 Russian Ark (visual concept)
 
Show ShowCinematographer (2 titles)
2005 The Sun
 
2001 Taurus
 
Show ShowProducer (1 title)
2001 Elegy of a Voyage (producer)
 
Show ShowArt Department (1 title)
1987 Ochen vas vsekh lyublyu (documentary) (artistic coordinator)
 
Show ShowEditor (1 title)
1974 Avtomobil nabiraet nadezhnost (TV documentary short)
 
Show ShowThanks (1 title)
2012 The Debridement of Rome (short) (acknowledgment)
 
Show ShowSelf (17 titles)
2012 Cinema 3 (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 8 March 2012 (2012) … Himself
 
2011 The Story of Film: An Odyssey (TV series documentary)
Himself - Interviewee
– Episode #1.15 (2011) … Himself - Interviewee
– Episode #1.8 (2011) … Himself - Interviewee
– Episode #1.3 (2011) … Himself - Interviewee
 
2008 Pozner (TV series)
Himself - Interviewee
– Aleksandr Sokurov (2008) … Himself - Interviewee
 
2006 Elegiya zhizni. Rostropovich. Vishnevskaya. (documentary)
Himself
 
2003 In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark (video documentary short)
Himself (as Alexander Sokurov)
 
2002 One Take Movie (documentary short)
Himself
 
2001 Filmopolis (TV series)
Himself
– Episode dated 22 June 2001 (2001) … Himself
 
2000 The Dialogues with Solzhenitsyn (documentary)
Himself
 
1998 The Diary of St. Petersburg. Kozintsev's Flat (TV documentary)
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
 
1997 The Diary of St. Petersburg: Inauguration of the Monument to Dostoevsky (TV documentary)
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
 
1995 Dukhovnye golosa. Iz dnevnikov voyny. Povestvovanie v pyati chastyakh (documentary)
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
 
1995 Soldier's Dream (documentary short)
Narrator (voice)
 
1991 Elokuva vangitsee aikaa (documentary)
Himself
 
1990 To the Events in Transcaucasia (documentary short)
Himself (uncredited)
 
1990 A Simple Elegy (documentary short)
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
 
1989 Peterburgskaya elegiya (documentary short)
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
 
1987 Moskovskaya elegiya (documentary)
Narrator (voice)
 

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Personal Details

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1 Print Biography  | 1 Interview  | 4 Articles  | See more »

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Alternate Names:

A. Sokurov | Alexander Sokurov
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Trivia:

Profiled in "Films and Dreams: Tarkovsky, Bergman, Sokurov, Kubrick and Wong Kar-Wei" by Thurston Botz-Borsnstein. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2008. See more »

Trademark:

Paintings - Often includes long, accurate shots of real paintings in his film and his videos. See more »

Nickname:

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Star Sign:

Gemini