Screenplay: Aleksandr Sokúrov

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Aleksandr Sokúrov. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


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

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)

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

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)

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