Aleksandr Sokurov Movies

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

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

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

Made up of footage of a protest manifestation of mothers whose children had been summoned to serve in Soviet military forces and sent to the zones of...

The painting tells about the difficult process of rehearsals under the guidance of a conductor.

A requiem for a Russian peasant woman, Maria Semionovna Voinova. The film is in two chapters. The first chapter consists of an impression of Maria...

The picture is about the anti-Hitler coalition of the USSR, England and America, which developed as a counterweight to the aggressive policy of Nazi...

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

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

Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov talks with the young director of independent experimental cinema Edward Shelganov.

This small film came out of the material edited for Sokurov's five-hour documentary Spiritual Voices.

The life stories of two elderly women living in a remote region of Kurdish Iraq.

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

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

This film was created by Sokurov before or during his VGIK student years for the regional TV of Gorki. He does not consider it a part of his...

A documentary film about the agricultural development in the region of Gorky: the everyday life in a sovkhoz, the building of a reservoir and of a...

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

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