Russian director Alexander Sokurov arrives at the screening of the film "The Sun" in Berlin. Sokurov delivered unusually blunt criticism of government policies in the presence of President Vladimir ...

This is the fourth in a series of articles written in response to the recent 55th Berlinale—the Berlin film festival—February 10-20. Aleksandr Sokurov’s latest film The Sun was warmly received by many ...

The most perverse installment of Aleksandr Sokurov’s dictator cycle, The Sun follows the Russian director’s meditations on Hitler (Moloch, 1999) and Lenin (Taurus, 2000) with a curiously upbeat ...

Revered Russian auteur Alexander Sokurov (“Francofonia”) (pictured) and Turkey’s pluriprized Nuri Bilge Ceylan (“Winter Sleep”) have joined Japan’s Naomi Kawase and Argentina’s Lucrecia Martel as ...

Alexander Sokurov, an outspoken critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has shut down his film foundation after legal attacks from Russia's culture ministry. By Vladimir Kozlov Renowned Russian ...

06/06/2017 - The Russian filmmaker will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 30th European Film Awards Ceremony on 9 December in Berlin Having first graduated in History, Aleksandr Sokurov ...

Aleksandr Sokurov (born June 14, 1951) is a Russian director of avant-garde and independent films that have won him international acclaim. Described as a heir to Tarkovsky, spare, gloomy and ...

Exquisitely grueling yet fiercely humane, Kantemir Balagov’s Beanpole, an astounding Russian period drama, cements the artistically mature director as a prodigy of international cinema moving towards ...

11 minutes into Francofonia, the Russian filmmaker Alexander Sokurov’s lyrical meditation on the cultural and humanistic significance of the Louvre, Sokurov inserts footage of Hitler orienting himself ...