Aleksandr Sokurov Movies

  • 2001
    Taurus

    Taurus

    Taurus

    5.72001HD

    Unfolding over two days in 1924, the film depicts the dying Lenin, world revolutionary and father of the USSR, now powerless and isolated at his...

    Taurus
  • 1999
    Moloch

    Moloch

    Moloch

    6.31999HD

    In 1942 Bavaria, Eva is alone, when Adolf arrives with Josef, his wife Magda, and Martin to spend a couple of days without politics.

    Moloch
  • 2005
    The Sun

    The Sun

    The Sun

    6.72005HD

    A re-imagination of Japanese Emperor Hirohito’s final days in power as WWII draws to a close.

    The Sun
  • 2009
    Reading Book of Blockade

    Reading Book of Blockade

    Reading Book of Blockade

    4.52009HD

    Amateur actors read stories from a book describing the 900-day siege of Leningrad during World War II.

    Reading Book of Blockade
  • 1979
    VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession

    VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession

    VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession

    01979HD

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

    VGIK: Teachers and Students Talk About the Profession
  • 2019
    Voices in the Old Walls

    Voices in the Old Walls

    Voices in the Old Walls

    02019HD

    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...

    Voices in the Old Walls
  • 1981
    You Should Survive

    You Should Survive

    You Should Survive

    11981HD

    1945, an attack aviation regiment is based at the field airfield, which is served by a team of young girls. The last days of the war are coming... In...

    You Should Survive
  • 2007
    Alexandra

    Alexandra

    Alexandra

    6.112007HD

    Elderly Aleksandra visits her Russian soldier grandson, Denis, at the Chechen war front, providing comfort as she tours his army. All the while,...

    Alexandra
  • 2017
    Closeness

    Closeness

    Closeness

    6.82017HD

    1998, Nalchik. A Jewish family is in trouble: the youngest son and his bride do not come home, and in the morning, a ransom note arrives. The ransom...

    Closeness
  • 2019
    A Russian Youth

    A Russian Youth

    A Russian Youth

    5.52019HD

    A teenage soldier in World War I—a simple village boy with a naive youthful dream of fame and medals—throws himself into the unknown and...

    A Russian Youth
  • 2003
    Kira

    Kira

    Kira

    02003HD

    Film about the work of Ukrainian film director Kira Muratova.

    Kira
  • 1980
    The Degraded

    The Degraded

    The Degraded

    5.71980HD

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

    The Degraded
  • 1990
    The Second Circle

    The Second Circle

    The Second Circle

    6.31990HD

    A man tries to come to terms with his father's death and to deal with the mundane details of his burial in a society cut off from spirituality.

    The Second Circle
  • 2002
    Russian Ark

    Russian Ark

    Russian Ark

    7.262002HD

    A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.

    Russian Ark
  • 1996
    Celebrate Cinema 101

    Celebrate Cinema 101

    Celebrate Cinema 101

    01996HD

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

    Celebrate Cinema 101
  • 1990
    Save and Protect

    Save and Protect

    Save and Protect

    51990HD

    Inspired by Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, Sokurov’s Save and Protect recalls the most crucial events of Emma’s decline and fall:...

    Save and Protect
  • 1992
    Stone

    Stone

    Stone

    5.151992HD

    Via the New York Times: "...a severely obscure meditation on pre-revolutionary Russia in the form of an encounter between a ghost from the past and...

    Stone
  • 1988
    Days of Eclipse

    Days of Eclipse

    Days of Eclipse

    5.71988HD

    This bleak late soviet-era drama follows the career of Malyanov, a young medical school graduate who has been sent to work in Turkmenia. Here he runs...

    Days of Eclipse
  • 2009
    Elegy of a Voyage

    Elegy of a Voyage

    Elegy of a Voyage

    7.22009HD

    This intimately narrated journey from Russia to Rotterdam, via rail, road and Finnish ferry, is a melancholy meditation on divinity, time and place...

    Elegy of a Voyage
  • 2009
    The Art of Time

    The Art of Time

    The Art of Time

    02009HD

    Explores some of the most innovative attempts by contemporary artists, filmmakers, architects etc to explore multiple Temporalities and to counter...

    The Art of Time