Aleksandr Sokurov Movies

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

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

The panorama of human affairs encounters the “man with a movie camera”. His playground has no boundaries, his curiosity no limits....

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...

A 1988 documentary film directed by Alexander Sokurov, about the later life and death of Soviet Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. The film was...

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

In 1994, Alexander Sokurov accompanied Russian troops assigned to a frontier military post at the Tajikistan/Afghanistan border to film their...

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...

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

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

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

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

A documentary grotesque in which even the walls speak. Famous directors of St. Petersburg cinema recall their lives and work, and images of old films...

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

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

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

Film about the work of Ukrainian film director Kira Muratova.

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

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