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:...

Film about the work of Ukrainian film director Kira Muratova.

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

Proskurina's personal homage to her friends and mentor Alexandr Sokurov. The intimate yet objective portrait comprises frank conversations with the...

A portrait of Naum Kleiman — film scholar, historian, and sage. In conversation with him, a vast cultural landscape unfolds, where Pushkin...

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...

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

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...

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

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

A documentary about the making of Alexander Sokurov’s film "The Sun".

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...

Famous actors and ordinary people from all walks of life read stories from a book describing the 900-day siege of Leningrad during World War II.

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

The film tells the story of a teenager Kolya, who, after the death of his mother, finds himself in the village with his grandmother. There they are...

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

Aleksander Sokurov brings the treasures of the Hermitage back into the light by making films about artists and their paintings. He has chosen the...

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

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

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...