Aleksandr Sokurov Movies

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

A collection of six documentary films featuring various locations and cultures of the world, screened at the Musée du Quai Branly from 18-23...

A documentary about the making of Alexander Sokurov’s film "The Sun".

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...

Proskurina's personal homage to her friends and mentor Alexandr Sokurov. The intimate yet objective portrait comprises frank conversations with the...

Video version of the dramatic dystopian performance staged by Alexander Sokurov in Vicenza, on the stage of the world's oldest theater Teatro...

Making of Russian Ark, with on camera personal views by members of the cast and crew of the major film.

Famous actors and ordinary people from all walks of life read stories from a book describing the 900-day siege of Leningrad during World War II.

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

An encounter with the great Russian film director Alexander Sokurov, which gives rise to a lot of questions about his artistic stand and the problems...

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

A Humble Life is certainly true to its title, a documentary study of the day-to-day world of Umeno Mathuyoshi, an old woman who lives in an isolated...

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...

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.

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

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

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...