Aleksandr Sokurov Movies

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 civil and artistic statement about those who determined the fate of the planet: Stalin, Churchill, Mussolini, Hitler, according to a Russian...

The film tells the story of a teenager Kolya, who, after the death of his mother, finds himself in the village with his grandmother. There they are...

Made up of footage of a protest manifestation of mothers whose children had been summoned to serve in Soviet military forces and sent to the zones of...

Aleksander Sokurov brings the treasures of the Hermitage back into the light by making films about artists and their paintings. He has chosen the...

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

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

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...

Interesting short documentary on young athletes in a Soviet ice skating program, some of whom are barely past toddler age. Kinetic and up close, the...

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

As with so many early films by Sokurov, this film has two dates: the first is the date of its creation (the film was then banned), the second is the...

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

Documentary film from the set of Igor Olshansky’s debut short film “Easter”. Igor Olshansky is a participant of Alexander...

The life stories of two elderly women living in a remote region of Kurdish Iraq.

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

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

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