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Aleksandr Sokurov
	Country: Russia Total Films at Criticker: 29 - You've Seen 0
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The Story of Film: An Odyssey (2011)

Summary: An odyssey through the story of film.

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Faust (2011)

Summary: A version of the German legend in which a man who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge. (imdb)

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Aleksandra (2007)

Summary: An elderly woman takes a train trip to visit her grandson at his army camp inside Chechnya. (imdb)

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Solntse (2005)

Summary: As Japan nears defeat at the end of World War II, Emperor Hirohito starts his day in a bunker underneath the Imperial Palace in Toyko. A servant reads to him a list of activities for the day, including a meeting with his ministers, marine biology research, and writing his son. Hirohito muses about the impact on such schedules when the Americans arrive but is told that as long as there is a solitary Japanese person living, the Americans will not reach The Emperor... (imdb)

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Father and Son (2003)

Summary: Father and Son explores the intricate dynamics of familial relations and the profound, ambiguous nature of love and loss between inextricably linked souls. (Wellspring Media)

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Elegiya dorogi (2002)

Summary: It starts in Russia where the narrator (who is only seen as a shade, but seems to be Sokurov) passes through a town while remembering its inhabitants' intense fear of death. Next he observes a baptism in the company of a monk. He wonders why Jesus did not beg to be crucified, as this was his destination. He seems to ask: How could the world be redeemed if even God is afraid of death? (IMDB Comments)

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Russian Ark (2002)

Summary: Told in one fluid shot, a tale which floats like a dreamlike journey through the majestic spaces of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, engaging real and imagined characters from Russian and European history. The nameless protagonist, a 19th-century French diplomat, guides the audience through a lost, sumptuous dream that was the Enlightenment period. The film, staged among some of the Western Art tradition's greatest masterpieces, climaxes in a pageant of color, motion, and music... (imdb)

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Telets (2001)

Summary: Taurus is a veiled, imaginatively speculative account of the last days of Vladimir Lenin. It is the second work in a planned tetrology of films focusing on the personal side of men in power in the 20th century. (rusfilm.pitt.edu)

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The Dialogues with Solzhenitsyn (1999)

Summary: Director Aleksandr Sokurov speaks with novelist and essayist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in a series of engaging and thought-provoking interviews.

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Moloch (1999)

Summary: In 1942, in Bavaria, Eva Braun (Yelena Rufanova) is alone, when Adolf Hitler (Leonid Mozgovoy) arrives with Dr. Josef Goebbels (Leonid Sokol) and his wife Magda Goebbels (imdb)

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A Humble Life (1997)

Summary: This film is a contemplative report on an ancient, solitary house lost in the remote mountains of the village of Aska, in Japan. (uol.com.br)

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Mother and Son (1997)

Summary: 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 images of the countryside and cottage. (imdb)

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Robert. Schastlivaya zhizn (1996)

Summary: Aleksander Sokurov brings the treasures of the Hermitage back into the light by making films about artists and their paintings. He has chosen the painter Hubert Robert, who spent a long time in Italy, and whose preference was for creating ancient ruined landscapes and naturalistic portrayals of times past.

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Vostochnaya elegiya (1996)

Summary: “Oriental Elegy” is the first piece of the Japanese video cycle, the creation of which is still going on. The genre of this cycle can hardly be considered as documentary; perhaps only because the real people are represented there in their normal conditions and surroundings. (www.kinoglaz.fr)

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Spiritual Voices (1995)

Summary: In 1994, Sokurov accompanied Russian troops assigned to a frontier military post at the Tajikistan/Afghanistan border to film their experiences. Though Russia had pulled out of its war with Afghanistan in 1989, a shadowy enemy still dogs the Russian troops along the border. While unnamed tribal forces occasionally engage the troops in skirmishes, Sokurov’s haunting documentary actually chronicles the down time between activity. (amazon.com)

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Soldatskiy son (1995)

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

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Tikhiye stranitsy (1994)

Summary: Haunting black-and-white meditation on themes from 19th-century Russian literature, most conspicuously "Crime and Punishment." (nytimes)

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Kamen (1992)

Summary: Employing the flow and fugitive feeling of a half-remembered reverie—full of mysteries, portents, inexplicable happenings, and chimerical objects—the film, set in the Chekhov Museum, centers on the relationship between a young museum guard and an older visitor who seems at different times to be a lover, a doctor, or a surrogate father. (hcl.harvard.edu)

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The Second Circle (1990)

Summary: 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. (imdb)

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Madame Bovary (1990)

Summary: Sokurov uses "Madame Bovary" as his inspiration, and transforms hidden desires and longing of the protagonist into metaphysical beauty.

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Soviet Elegy (1989)

Summary: In this film the long train of photos of the Soviet leaders, dead or alive, stops at the portrait of Yeltsin. At the time of shooting Yeltsin had fallen down from the assembly of the Communist Party deities, and participated in the earthly life through connections of different kinds. Family chronicle, the world of nature, panoramas of new apartment blocks and cemeteries, accidental and acute episodes of life of the ordinary people of the street form the epic picture of a universal existence. (Alexandra Tuchinskaya)

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Sonata dlya Gitlera (1989)

Summary: Sonata for Hitler could broadly be described as an experimental piece although Sokurov is very clear about distancing himself from avant-garde filmmakers. Perhaps because of his early experiences of censorship, Sokurov is famously reticent about the concrete meanings to his films and has often been quoted as saying (of cinema) ‘too much importance is put on words'. ‘Impressions’ are what have remained important in Sokurov’s work. (www.cinema16.org)

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Days of Eclipse (1988)

Summary: This bleak late soviet-era drama follows the career of Malyanov (Alexei Ananishov), a young medical school graduate who has been sent to work in Turkmenia, which is on the Caspian Sea. Here he runs into a hodge-podge of people of differing ethnicities, all of them victims of the government's earlier mania. (MSN Movies)

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Mariya (1988)

Summary: Aleksandr Sokurov creates a visually poetic, elegant, and unforgettable synthesis of art and life in Mariya. The lush and textural initial sequence, shot using color film, presents the austere life of the titular Mariya - a robust, genial, and hard-working middle-aged collective farmer with an engaging smile - during an arduous flax harvest season in the summer of 1975. (KG)

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Skorbnoye beschuvstviye (1987)

Summary: The action in this lavishly produced film takes place at an oddly ark-shaped mansion during World War I. A large group of family and friends have gathered at this country house to dance, drink, and converse. Their conversation, in particular, is adorned with erudite literary references and quotations. Despite their apparent refinement, their preoccupations are simple: sex and violence. Disquieting images break the tranquility of the vacationers' inappropriate idyll. (allmovie.com)

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Moscow Elegy (1987)

Summary: A 1988 documentary film directed by Alexander Sokurov about the later life and death of Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (Wikipedia)

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The Lonely Human Voice (1987)

Summary: Made in 1977, and only finally released in 1987, this is Sokurov's first feature-length film. Extraordinarily beautiful, utilising an array of unusual stylistic devices, it seems as if Sokurov's style was fully formed from the outset. A sublime meditation on love, loneliness, life and death, it still stands as one of his finest achievements. (KG)

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Empire (1987)

Summary: A paralyzed woman attempts to call her husband at work but hears only the sound of other voices.

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Samye zemnye zaboty (1974)

Summary: A documentary film about the agricultural development in the region of Gorky: the everyday life in a sovkhoz, the building of a reservoir and of a greenhouse. (imdb)

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