Direction: Aleksandr Sokúrov

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Aleksandr Sokúrov. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


A Humble Life

1997 · Documentary · 75 min. · Russia

Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov

7.5

83 votes

7.5

83 votes

Confession

1998 · Documentary · 260 min. · Russia

Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov

Plot Originally a five-part semi-documentary series on Russian television, this scaled down release tells the story of a Russian naval commander in charge of an Arctic-based ship. The film reveals the...

7.4

40 votes

7.4

40 votes

The Dialogues with Solzhenitsyn

1999 · Documentary · 188 min. · Russia

7.4

26 votes

7.4

26 votes

Oriental Elegy

1996 · Documentary · 43 min. · Japan

Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov

7.3

172 votes

7.3

172 votes

Spiritual Voices

1995 · Documentary · 328 min. · Russia

Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov

7.3

80 votes

7.3

80 votes

Elegy of a Voyage

2001 · Movie · 48 min. · France

Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov

Cast Aleksandr Sokúrov

Plot From a misty night into the dark exposition rooms of a museum to ponder philosophically at paintings by 'Pieter Jansz Saenredam', 'Hercules Pieterszoon Seghers', Hendrikus van de Sande Bakhuyzen, Andreas...

7.3

290 votes

7.3

290 votes

Mother and Son

1997 · Movie · 71 min. · Russia

Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov

Cast Gudrun Geyer · Aleksei Ananishnov

Plot A slow and poignant story of love and patience told via a dying mother nursed by her devoted son. The simple narrative is a thread woven among the deeply spiritual...

7.1

1K votes

7.1

1K votes

Russian Ark

2002 · Movie · 96 min. · Russia

Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov

Cast Sergei Dreiden · Mariya Kuznetsova · Leonid Mozgovoy · Edisher Giorgobiani

Plot Russian master Alexander Sokurov has tapped into the very flow of history itself for this flabbergasting film. Thanks to the miracles of digital video, Sokurov (and cinematographer Tilman Buttner) uses...

7.1

4K votes

7.1

4K votes

The Sun

2005 · Movie · 110 min. · Russia

Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov

Cast Issei Ogata · Robert Dawson · Kaori Momoi · Shiro Sano

Plot Susan Sontag, the recently departed intellectual and devout cinephile, proclaimed Alexander Sokurov to be the most ambitious and original director of his generation. From the technically audacious costume drama Russian...

7.1

349 votes

7.1

349 votes

Moscow Elegy

1987 · Documentary · 88 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

7.0

193 votes

7.0

193 votes

Dolce... (Nezhno)

2000 · Documentary · 61 min. · Russia

Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov

Cast Toshio Shimao · Miho Shimao · Maya Shimao

Plot Dolce opens to a clinical biographical overview of writer and poet Toshio Shimao (1917-1986) as the narrator (Aleksandr Sokurov) thumbs through a family photo album, describing Shimao's privileged life as...

6.9

36 votes

6.9

36 votes

Maria

1988 · Documentary · 40 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov

6.8

82 votes

6.8

82 votes

6.8

96 votes

Dmitri Shostakovich: Viola Sonata

1981 · Documentary · 80 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov · Semyon Aranovich

Cast Tamara Alyoshina · Sergei Prokofiev · Dmitri Shostakovich · Joseph Stalin

Plot Co-directed by Aleksandr Sokurov and Semen Aranovich, Dmitri Shostakovich: Viola Sonata is an emotionally lucid, understated, textural, and reverent biography of the highly influential, Soviet-era composer and pianist, Dmitri Dmitrievich...

6.7

89 votes

6.7

89 votes

The Lonely Voice of Man

1987 · Movie · 87 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov

Cast Tatyana Goryacheva · Vladimir Degtyaryov · Lyudmila Yakovtleva · Sergey Shukaylo

Plot Film The Lonely Voice of Man is the first full–length feature film of Alexander Sokurov, made in 1978 and remastered in 1987 at the studio Lenfilm with the assistance of...

6.7

160 votes

6.7

160 votes

Father and Son

2003 · Movie · 84 min. · Russia

Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov

Cast Alexander Rasbash · Andrej Shetinin · Aleksei Nejmyshev · Martina Zasukhina

Plot Father and Son live together in a rooftop apartment. They have lived alone for years in their own private world, full of memories and daily rituals. Sometimes they seem like...

6.6

520 votes

6.6

520 votes

The Second Circle

1990 · Movie · 92 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov

Cast Pyotr Aleksandrov · Nadezhda Rodnova · Tamara Timofeyeva · Sergei Vybornov

Plot 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.

6.6

98 votes

6.6

98 votes

Moloch

1999 · Movie · 103 min. · Russia

6.5

498 votes

6.5

498 votes

Robert. A Fortunate Life

1996 · Documentary · 26 min. · Russia

Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov

6.5

72 votes

6.5

72 votes

Taurus

2001 · Movie · 104 min. · Russia

Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov

Cast Leonid Mozgovoy · Mariya Kuznetsova · Serguei Razhouk · Natalia Nikoulenko

Plot Lenin... A man who changed the course of history and shook the world now lies dying in a countryside manor, surrounded by outsiders. All around him is hustle, bustle and...

6.5

322 votes

6.5

322 votes