Aleksandr Sokurov Movies

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

Unfolding over two days in 1924, the film depicts the dying Lenin, world revolutionary and father of the USSR, now powerless and isolated at his...

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

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

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...

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

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....

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...

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...

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

A young man was born in a small Russian city, but now lives in the Caucasus, in a foreign culture. He works as a mountain guide and enjoys life, but...

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...

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

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

Yekaterinburg, Russia, July 17th, 1917. Czar Nicholas II Romanov and his entire family are brutally murdered by the Bolsheviks. This tragic event...

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