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Alexander Sokurov
Александр Сокуров
알렉산드르 소쿠로프
Alexandre Nikolaïevitch Sokourov
Aleksandr Sokourov
Aleksandr Sokurov
Directing
Biography
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 angle lenses. Often plotless with emphasis on aesthetics and impressionism his films are noted for philosophical approach to history and nature. Sokurov underlines the importance of film, not to yield to t…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Naum. Predictions
as self
Director's Diary
as Self
Voices in the Old Walls
Francofonia
as (voice)
Voice of Sokurov
as Himself
The Romanovs: Glory and Fall of the Czars
as Himself - Filmmaker
Film about the film
as himself
Alexander Sokurov. Temptation
Agnès Varda: From Here to There
as Self
We Need Happiness
as Narrator (voice)
