Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov, PAR (Russian: Ð Ð»ÐµÐºÑ Ð°Ì Ð½Ð´Ñ€
Ð Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð»Ð°Ì ÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð¡Ð¾ÐºÑƒÌ Ñ€Ð¾Ð²; 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.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.Mother and Son (1997) was
his first internationally acclaimed feature film. It was entered into
the 20th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Special
Silver St. George. It was mirrored by Father and Son (2003), which
baffled the critics with its implicit homoeroticism (though Sokurov
himself has criticized this particular interpretation). Susan Sontag
included two Sokurov features among her ten favorite films of the
1990s, saying: "There’s no director active today whose films I
admire as much." In 2006, he received the Master of Cinema Award of
the International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg.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.
Ð Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð»Ð°Ì ÐµÐ²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð¡Ð¾ÐºÑƒÌ Ñ€Ð¾Ð²; 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.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.Mother and Son (1997) was
his first internationally acclaimed feature film. It was entered into
the 20th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Special
Silver St. George. It was mirrored by Father and Son (2003), which
baffled the critics with its implicit homoeroticism (though Sokurov
himself has criticized this particular interpretation). Susan Sontag
included two Sokurov features among her ten favorite films of the
1990s, saying: "There’s no director active today whose films I
admire as much." In 2006, he received the Master of Cinema Award of
the International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg.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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