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Aleksandr Sokurov (writer)
Release Date:
26 September 2007 (France)
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An elderly woman takes a train trip to visit her grandson at his army camp inside Chechnya. | add synopsis
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A Meditation On War & Aging
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(Credited cast) | Galina Vishnevskaya | ... | Aleksandra Nikolaevna |
| Vasily Shevtsov | ... | Denis |
| Raisa Gichaeva | ... | Malika |
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| Andrei Bogdanov | ||
| Aleksandr Kladko | ||
| Aleksei Neymyshev | ||
| Rustam Shakhgireev | ||
| Evgeni Tkachuk | ||
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95 min
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Continuity: (A 54:24) In Malika's house, Malika invites Alexandra to take her jacket off. Alexandra does so laboriously. 20 seconds later she's suddenly wearing it again, and works her way out of it once more.
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Alexander Sokurov has directed some of the most beautiful visual poems I've managed to see since the films of the late Andrei Tarkovsky. His 'Russian Ark' still ranks for one of the best films of post Soviet Russia. 'Alexandra' is a tale of an elderly woman who travels by train to see her grandson,who is a soldier fighting the Russian/Chechen war. Despite the potential for graphic,bloody war scenes, the film instead focuses on the sad faces of soldiers,as well as the Chechen peoples who were not involved directly in fighting the war (but still had sons or daughters who died in battle with Russian soldiers). This is the kind of screen poetry that could never be allowed to see the light of day in pre Glanost/Perestroika Russian cinema (Soviet censorship was astringent about subject matter). What I really appreciated was the film's photography (that makes every scene look arid & devoid of colour). It reminded me of Sokurov's film 'Mother & Son' at times (with the loving relationship of Grandmother & Grandson depicted on screen).