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 ...

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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 ...

Master filmmaker Alexander Sokurov philosophizes about cinema, culture, and politics in Finnish helmer Leena Kilpelainen’s enjoyable docu “The Voice of Sokurov.” Those hoping for a full biography ...

Highly prolific and political Russian director Alexander Sokurov is probably most famous for the first unedited movie RUSSIAN ARK (2002). Making films and documentaries since 1974 Artificial Eye had ...

Spare yet tactile, a mysterious mixture of lightness and gravity, Alexander Sokurov’s Alexandra is founded on contradiction. Musing on war in general and the Russian occupation of Chechnya in ...

Sokurov's producer Andrey Sigle sacked as director of production. By Vladimir Kozlov MOSCOW — Prominent Russian film director Alexander Sokurov has stepped down as a board member of the St ...

Aleksandr Sokurov’s latest film The Sun was warmly received by many journalists and film critics following its European premiere at the 2005 Berlinale. In his career, the Russian director has made ...

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 ...

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 ...

Not rated; nudity, violence, decrepitude. With: Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinsky, Isolda Dychauk. In German with English subtitles. Siberia-born director Alexander Sokurov is best known in the West ...