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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 ...
Aleksandr Sokurov. Director: Russian Ark. He was born with a disability because of an anatomic defect of his leg, in 1951 in Podorvikha village in Siberian Russia.
Dec 19, 2011 · Aleksandr Sokurov. Photo by Luka Umek. You rejected the nomination of the Russian Film Academy for Solntse (The Sun, 2004 ) saying: “I find it unnatural when my fellow citizens know my name but not my films.”
Sep 1, 2015 · ST. PETERSBURG, Russia — Alexander Sokurov’s 2002 film “Russian Ark,” a single 90-minute unedited Steadicam shot that weaves through the State Hermitage Museum here, is an elliptical meditation...
Alexandr Sokurov is a Russian director of avant-garde and independent films that have won him international acclaim. A son of an army officer, Sokurov was born in 1951, and spent his childhood traveling with his family around Russia as his father was transferred from one location to another.
Anointed by Andrei Tarkovsky as his spiritual and aesthetic heir, Sokurov has led an embattled and solitary career over the past twenty-five years, creating work that is visionary, romantic, serene and feverish, despairing and exultant.
With his impressionistic lighting, lugubrious pacing, intricate mise-en-scène, and sculptural soundscapes, Sokurov can lay claim to being the most formally rigorous filmmaker working today, in either fiction or documentary.
