Movies

The panorama of human affairs encounters the “man with a movie camera”. His playground has no boundaries, his curiosity no limits....

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

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

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

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.

Originally aired on Russian television, this five-part semi-documentary series tells the story of a Russian naval commander in charge of an...

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...

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

A documentary about the famous musician Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife, Galina Vishnevskaya.

The life and work of the great Russian composer Dmitriy Shostakovich is presented in this documentary through rare images and audios from many...

A surreal journey of a displaced spirit as he wanders in the interminable darkness through the temporal landscape of a quaint and isolated feudal-era...

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

Making of Russian Ark, with on camera personal views by members of the cast and crew of the major film.

Film about the work of Ukrainian film director Kira Muratova.

As with so many early films by Sokurov, this film has two dates: the first is the date of its creation (the film was then banned), the second is the...

In 1994, Alexander Sokurov accompanied Russian troops assigned to a frontier military post at the Tajikistan/Afghanistan border to film their...

The Dialogues with Solzhenitsyn is a two-part Russian television documentary by Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov on Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. The...

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

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...