Cinematography: Askold Kurov

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Askold Kurov. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Welcome to Chechnya

2020 · Documentary · 107 min. · United States

Direction David France

Plot This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ pogrom raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic. Since 2016, Chechnya’s tyrannical...

7.3

245 votes

7.3

245 votes

Children 404

2014 · Documentary · 77 min. · Russia

Direction Askold Kurov · Pavel Loparev

Cast Elena Klimova

Plot A documentary on gay and lesbian youth in Russia.

6.5

66 votes

6.5

66 votes

The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov

2017 · Documentary · 75 min. · Estonia

Direction Askold Kurov

Cast Oleg Sentsov · Dmitry Dinze · Natalya Kaplan · Gennady Afanasyev

Plot The Ukrainian documentary filmmaker and Maidan activist Oleg Sentsov was convicted in August 2015 to 20 years in prison in Siberia, charged on obscure arguments of planning a sabotage. The...

5.9

29 votes

5.9

29 votes