Personal info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
5 / Jun / 1951 (73 years old)
Place of Birth
village Podorvikha, Irkutsk Region, RSFSR, USSR, (now Russia)
Also Known As
- Alexander Sokurov
- Александр Сокуров
- 알렉산드르 소쿠로프
Aleksandr Sokurov
Aleksandr Sokurov (born June 14, 1951) is a Russian director of avant-garde and independent films that have won him international acclaim. Described as a heir to Tarkovsky, spare, gloomy and contemplative, he often blurs lines between image and world. His noticable trademark and style includes long, accurate shots of real painterly compositions, disorted field of view, zooms and use of wide angle lenses. Often plotless with emphasis on aesthetics and impressionism his films are noted for philosophical approach to history and nature. Sokurov underlines the importance of film, not to yield to t...
Known For
8.2
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
7 / Oct / 2011
8.0
An Example of Intonation
3 / Jan / 1991
7.6
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
7 / Sep / 2011
7.4
The Last Days of Humanity
2 / May / 2023
7.3
Russian Ark
4 / May / 2002
7.3
Elegy of a Voyage
6 / Jun / 2001
6.9
Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya
6 / Apr / 2006
6.7
In One Breath: Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark
3 / Sep / 2003
6.6
Francofonia
4 / Nov / 2015