Watch movies directed by Aleksandr Sokurov

Francofonia

Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark) transforms a portrait of the world-renowned museum into a magisterial, centuries-spanning reflection on the relation between art, culture and power.

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6.7

2015 Drama 87 min Play

6.9

The Sun

Biographical film depicting Japanese Emperor Shōwa (Hirohito) during the final days of World War II. The film is the third drama in director Aleksandr Sokurov's trilogy, which included Taurus about the Soviet Union's Vladimir Lenin and Moloch about Nazi Germany's Adolf Hitler.

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6.9

2005 Drama 110 min Play

7.5

Russian Ark

A French marquis wanders through a vast labyrinth of corridors, theaters and ballrooms at a reception for a Persian ambassador.

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7.5

2002 Drama 99 min Play

6.8

Moloch

In 1942, in Bavaria, Eva Braun is alone, when Adolf Hitler arrives with Dr. Josef Goebbels and his wife Magda Goebbels and Martin Bormann to spend a couple of days without talking politics.

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6.8

1999 Drama 108 min Play

7

Mother and Son

A man goes for a walk through the countryside with his dying mother.

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7

1997 Drama 65 min Play

6.4

Oriental Elegy

Oriental Elegy (1996). Visually impressionistic, atmospherically dense, and narratively opaque, Oriental Elegy is the surreal journey of a displaced spirit (Aleksandr Sokurov) as he wanders in the interminable darkness through the temporal landscape of a quaint and isolated feudal-era fishing village. Guided by a series of faintly illuminated rooms, the wandering spirit comes upon ancient souls who take on physical forms as they recount their personal stories of daily existence, loss, and ...

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6.4

1996 Drama 43 min Play

7

Spiritual Voices

In 1994, Alexander Sokurov accompanied Russian troops assigned to a frontier military post at the Tajikistan/Afghanistan border to film their experiences. While unnamed tribal forces occasionally engaged the troops in skirmishes, Sokurov’s haunting documentary chronicles the downtime between activity.

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7

1995 Documentary 340 min Play

6.3

Whispering Pages

An anonymous man wanders through decomposing, fog-enshrouded catacombs and encounters a series of “the degraded and the humiliated,” including a holy prostitute and a Kafkaesque bureaucrat.

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6.3

1994 Drama 77 min Play

6.9

The Second Circle

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.

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6.9

1990 Drama 92 min Play