Aleksandr Sokurov Movies

A montage of Leningrad newsreel becomes a composite collage made up of documents-shots, divided in 16 parts, presenting the author's point of view on...

The manifestation and fireworks on the 1st of May, one of the ritual celebrations of Soviet times, as a gathering of tired participants of a mass...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov talks with the young director of independent experimental cinema Edward Shelganov.

Set in the early 1920s after the end of the Russian Civil War, Red Army soldier Nikita returns to his hometown to see his partner Lyuba, both of whom...

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...

This small film came out of the material edited for Sokurov's five-hour documentary Spiritual Voices.

In the 20's an enthusiast radio amateur, Fyodor Lbov, experiments one of the first short-waves radio in the city of Gorky.

From 1961 to 1995, Alexander Sokurov kept a personal diary, recording both important events and everyday trivia. Now these candid recordings are...

A doctor in early 19th-century Germany becomes infatuated with the sister of a man he unintentionally killed and bargains with the Devil incarnate to...