Aleksandr Sokurov Movies

1998, Nalchik. A Jewish family is in trouble: the youngest son and his bride do not come home, and in the morning, a ransom note arrives. The ransom...

Explores some of the most innovative attempts by contemporary artists, filmmakers, architects etc to explore multiple Temporalities and to counter...

1945, an attack aviation regiment is based at the field airfield, which is served by a team of young girls. The last days of the war are coming... In...

Inspired by Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Sokurov’s Save and Protect recalls the most crucial events of Emma’s decline and fall:...

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

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

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...

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...

Amateur actors read stories from a book describing the 900-day siege of Leningrad during World War II.

The story of VGIK teachers and students about the acting profession.

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

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 film is dedicated to the life and work of the Russian director, who deservedly received worldwide recognition due to his incredible talent

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

This intimately narrated journey from Russia to Rotterdam, via rail, road and Finnish ferry, is a melancholy meditation on divinity, time and place...

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