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- 1951-06-14
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Directing · village Podorvikha, Irkutsk Region, RSFSR, USSR, (now Russia)
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…
Known for
- Naum. Predictions — self2026
- Director's Diary — Self2025
- Voices in the Old Walls2019
- Francofonia — (voice)2015
- Voice of Sokurov — Himself2014
- Film about the film — himself2013
- The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars — Himself - Filmmaker2013
- Alexander Sokurov. Temptation2012
- Agnès Varda: From Here to There — Self2011
- The Story of Film: An Odyssey — Self
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Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov, PAR (Russian: Александр Николаевич Сокуров; born 14 June 1951) is a Russian filmmaker. His most significant works include a feature film, Russian Ark (2002), filmed in a single unedited shot, and Faust (2011), which was honoured with the Golden Lion, the highest prize for the best film at the Venice Film Festival.
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1951 births20th-century Russian male writers20th-century Russian screenwritersAcademicians of the Russian Academy of Cinema Arts and Sciences "Nika"Directors of Golden Lion winnersEuropean Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award recipientsGerasimov Institute of Cinematography alumniGerman-language film directorsHonored Workers of the Arts Industry of the Russian FederationLiving peopleOfficiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres