Alexander Sokurov
- January 4, 2024
- Director
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Alexander Sokurov Biography
| Name | Alexander Sokurov |
| Birthday | Jun 14 |
| Birth Year | 1951 |
| Place Of Birth | Russia |
| Home Town | Q58164506 |
| Birth Country | Russia |
| Birth Sign | Gemini |
| Parents | Nikolay Sokurov, Mariya Sokurova |
Alexander Sokurov is one of the most popular and richest Director who was born on June 14, 1951 in Russia, Q58164506, Russia. Russian director of the film Faust, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 2011.
He and German director Wim Wenders were both awarded the Golden Lion, the highest honor at the Venice Film Festival.
Sokurov was born in Podorvikha, Irkutsk Oblast, in Siberia, into a military officer’s family. He graduated from the History Department of the Nizhny Novgorod University in 1974 and entered one of the VGIK studios the following year. There he became friends with Tarkovsky and was deeply influenced by his film Mirror. Most of Sokurov’s early features were banned by Soviet authorities. During his early period, he produced numerous documentaries, including The Dialogues with Solzhenitsyn and a reportage about Grigori Kozintsev’s flat in St Petersburg. His film Mournful Unconcern was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 37th Berlin International Film Festival in 1987.
In 1994 Sokurov accompanied Russian troops to a post on the Tajikistan- Afghanistan border. The result was Spiritual Voices: From the Diaries of a War, a 327-minute cinematic meditation on the war and the spirit of the Russian army. Landscape photography is featured in the film, but the music (including works by Mozart, Messiaen and Beethoven) and the sound are also particularly important. Soldiers’ jargon and the combination of animal sounds, sighs and other location sounds in the fog and other visual effects give the film a phantasmagorical feel. The film brings together all the elements that characterize Sokurov’s films: long takes, elaborate filming and image processing methods, a mix of documentary and fiction, the importance of the landscape and the sense of a filmmaker who brings transcendence to everyday gestures.
His father was an officer in the Russian military.
Alexander Sokurov Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Director |
| House | Living in own house. |
Alexander Sokurov is one of the richest Director from Russia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Alexander Sokurov 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He began as a documentarian and was nominated for the Golden Lion in 1987 for his documentary Mournful Unconcern.
His 2002 film Russian Ark was filmed in one single, unbroken, 96-minute take.
Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov, PAR (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Соку́ров ; born 14 June 1951) is a Russian filmmaker. His most significant works include a feature film, Russian Ark (2002), filmed in a single unedited shot, and Faust (2011), which was honoured with the Golden Lion, the highest prize for the best film at the Venice Film Festival.
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Sokurov is a Cannes Film Festival regular, with four of his movies having debuted there. However, until 2011, Sokurov didn’t win top awards at major international festivals. For a long time, his most commercially and critically successful film was the semi-documentary Russian Ark (2002), acclaimed primarily for its visually hypnotic images and single unedited shot.
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Alexander Ranked on the list of most popular Director. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Russia. Alexander Sokurov celebrates birthday on June 14 of every year.
In Confession: From the Commander’s Diary, Sokurov films officers from the Russian Navy, showing the monotony and lack of freedom of their everyday lives. The dialogue allows us to follow the reflections of a Ship Commander. Sokurov and his crew went aboard a naval patrol ship headed for Kuvshinka, a naval base in the Murmansk region, in the Barents Sea. Confined within the limited space of a ship anchored in Arctic waters, the team filmed the sailors as they went about their routine activities.