Aleksandr Sokurov Movies

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

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

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...

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...

Film about the work of Ukrainian film director Kira Muratova.

The film was shot in the period from spring to winter 2021 in the vicinity of the village of Luzhitsy, which is located in the west of the Leningrad...

A rich woman accidently comes across a conversation on the phone about people talking about a murder.

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

The reburial of great Russian singer Feodor Chaliapin from Les Batignolles cemetery in Paris to Novo–Devitchye cemetery in Moscow. The...

The picture is about the anti-Hitler coalition of the USSR, England and America, which developed as a counterweight to the aggressive policy of Nazi...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

Poetic portrait of a filmmaker. The famous director reflects on creativity and love. His friends and associates take part in the film: artist...

A document on the daily life of an ordinary collective farm of the U.S.S.R. in 1978 : the hard-working people who love their work just because they...

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