Screenplay: Aleksandr Sokúrov
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Aleksandr Sokúrov. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 27
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
Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov
7.4
26 votes
7.4
26 votes
7.3
172 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
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
Moscow Elegy
1987 · Documentary · 88 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov
Cast Andrei Tarkovsky · Tonino Guerra
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
6.8
82 votes
Whispering Pages
1994 · Movie · 77 min. · Russia
Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov
Cast Aleksandr Cherednik · Sergei Barkovsky · Elizaveta Koroleva · Olga Onishchenko
6.8
96 votes
6.8
96 votes
Robert. A Fortunate Life
1996 · Documentary · 26 min. · Russia
Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov
6.5
72 votes
6.5
72 votes
Francofonia: An Elegy for Europe
2015 · Movie · 87 min. · France
Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov
Cast Louis-Do de Lencquesaing · Vincent Nemeth · Benjamin Utzerath · Johanna Korthals Altes
Plot Another century has passed on the Old Continent... Large armies are trampling on the heart of civilisation and cannon fire is once again taking its toll. Amidst the massacre and...
6.4
840 votes
6.4
840 votes
Faust
2011 · Movie · 134 min. · Russia
Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov
Cast Johannes Zeiler · Anton Adasinsky · Isolda Dychauk · Hanna Schygulla
Plot Set in the 19th century, it is a free interpretation of the Faust legend and its literary adaptations by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Thomas Mann. The dialogue is in...
6.4
1K votes
6.4
1K votes
Aleksandra
2007 · Movie · 92 min. · Russia
Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov
Cast Galina Vishnevskaya · Vasily Shevtsov · Raisa Gichaeva · Andrei Bogdanov
Plot Chechen Republic, present day. Russian troop positions. Alexandra Nikolaevna is a grandmother who has come to see her grandson, one of the best officers in his unit. She will spend...
6.3
688 votes
6.3
688 votes
Fairytale
2022 · Movie · 78 min. · Russia
Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov
Cast Alexander Sagabashi · Vakhtang Kuchava · Fabio Mastrangelo · Lothar Deeg
Plot Once upon a time there were two vagabonds... no... three... No, it’s four... But there were others, many different ones... I knew them. For a long time. But with them...
6.0
75 votes
6.0
75 votes
Empire
1987 · Movie · 32 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov
Cast Alla Osipenko · Ilya Rivin
5.8
41 votes
5.8
41 votes
Sonata for Hitler (S)
1989 · Documentary · 11 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov
5.6
264 votes
5.6
264 votes
The Evening Sacrifice (S)
1988 · Documentary · 20 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)
Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov
Plot Five minutes of strange and mindbending actions: crowds of people on the main street of Leningrad after the firework. Sokurov just explored human rampancy. He saw existential tragedy in this...
5.4
47 votes
5.4
47 votes
Elegy of Life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya
2006 · Documentary · 101 min. · Russia
Direction Aleksandr Sokúrov
Cast Mstislav Rostropovich · Galina Vishnevskaya · Aleksandr Sokúrov · Seiji Ozawa
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