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Profile of Aleksandr Sokurov
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Aleksandr Sokurov |
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14th June 1951 |
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Podorvikha, Soviet Union (now Russia) |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov is a Russian auteur filmmaker from St Petersburg who has been hailed as successor to Andrei Tarkovsky. His movies are said to represent an ultimate challenge in contemporary intellectual film making.
Sokurov was born in Siberia in the officer's family on June 14, 1951. 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 made friends with Tarkovsky and was deeply influenced by his Mirror.
Most of Sokurov's early features were banned by Soviet authorities. During his early period, he produced numerous documentaries, including an interview with Solzhenitsyn and a reportage about Grigori Kozintsev's flat in St Petersburg.
Mother and Son (1996) was his first internationally acclaimed feature film. It was mirrored by Father and Son (2003) which baffled the critics with its implicit homoeroticism. Between these two parts, Sokurov filmed a trilogy on the 20th-century politicians: Moloch (1999) about Hitler, Taurus (2000) about Lenin, and The Sun (2004) about Emperor Hirohito.
Sokurov is a Cannes Film Festival regular, four of his movies having debuted there one by one. Although he has been somewhat reluctant to cast accomplished actors in his features, the Russian Film Academy awarded several Nike Awards to him. His most commercially and critically successful effort to date has been a semi-documentary Russian Arc (2002), acclaimed primarily for its visually hypnotic images.
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