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Alexander Sokurov
Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov, PAR 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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culture · Russian filmmaker (born 1951) · film director · screenwriter · writer · director · also Alexander Sokurov, Aleksandr Sokurov, Aleksandr Sokoerov, A. Sokurov, Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov, Sokurov
Born 14 June 1951 · Q55172
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2022· 2 entries
Sokurov criticized the Kremlin and opposed the Russian invasion of Ukraine
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2019· 2 entries
The Guardian: Film foundation set up by Alexander Sokurov to close after claims of government hostility
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The Hollywood Reporter: Putin Critic Alexander Sokurov Shuts Russian Film Foundation
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2017· 2 entries
Awarded European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award (2017).
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JSTOR Daily: The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov: Figures of Paradox
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2016· 1 entry
Artnet: Alexander Sokurov’s ‘Francofonia’ Is a Haunting Meditation on the Role of Art
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2015· 2 entries
IndieWire: Music Box Films Acquires Alexander Sokurov’s Acclaimed ‘Francofonia’
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12 students graduated from his course; among them were such rising stars of cinema, as Kantemir Balagov, Vladimir Bitokov, Kira Kovalenko, and Alexander Zolotukhin
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2014· 3 entries
Yahoo: Alexander Sokurov Leads Creative Lab in St. Petersburg
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Awarded State Prize of the Russian Federation (2014).
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Awarded Dmitry Likhachev Foundation Prize (2014).
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2011· 4 entries
The Guardian: Aleksandr Sokurov: Delusions and grandeur
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Won Golden Lion (2011).
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Awarded Laurel Branch Award (2011).
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Sokurov shot the last part of the series, Faust, a retelling of Goethe's tragedy
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2010· 1 entry
Sokurov launched his personal course at the Kabardino-Balkarian State University in Nalchik
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2006· 1 entry
Received the Master of Cinema Award of the International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg
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2003· 1 entry
The Guardian: Russian auteur Alexander Sokurov
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2001· 1 entry
The Guardian: Alexander Sokurov's new film about Lenin: Taurus
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1995· 1 entry
– when Spiritual Voices was still at the editing stage – as Sokurov's homage to the art critic and historian Hans Schlegel, in acknowledgement of his contributions in support of Eastern European filmmakers
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1994· 1 entry
Sokurov accompanied Russian troops to a post on the Tajikistan-Afghanistan border
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1979· 1 entry
Studied at Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (1979).
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1974· 1 entry
And entered one of the VGIK studios the following year
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1951· 1 entry
Born 1951-06-14.
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