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:...

The story of VGIK teachers and students about the acting profession.

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.

Film about the work of Ukrainian film director Kira Muratova.

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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 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...

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...

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