Aleksandr Sokurov Movies

The painting tells about the difficult process of rehearsals under the guidance of a conductor.

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 film about the Russian director Sergei Kosintsev.

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

This film was Sokurov's first feature at Lenfilm, roughly based on a short story by the contemporary Soviet writer Grigory Baklanov about the...

The second film by Sokurov featuring Boris Yeltsin as the principal character. Now he is the President of Russia, invested with power, bearing the...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

Film about the work of Ukrainian film director Kira Muratova.

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

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

A surreal journey of a displaced spirit as he wanders in the interminable darkness through the temporal landscape of a quaint and isolated feudal-era...