Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov

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Alexander Sokurov (2011)

Alexander Nikolajewitsch Sokurow ( Russian Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Соку́ров Aleksandr Nikolaevič Sokurov ; born June 14, 1951 in Podorwicha , Irkutsk Oblast , Soviet Union ) is a Russian director and screenwriter .

Life

Sokurov was born in Siberia as the son of a Soviet officer . From 1969 to 1975 he worked as an assistant director in the television studio in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod). He studied history at Gorky University (graduated in 1974) and later at the Moscow State Institute of Filmography (WGIK), where he graduated in 1979. Sokurov has lived in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) since 1980 .

His films often collided with Soviet censorship, but he got support from well-known directors such as B. Andrei Tarkovsky . In 1991 he illustrated the great upheavals in the last year of the Soviet Union in the film “Simple Elegy” (Prostaja elegia), which focuses on the Lithuanian pianist Vytautas Landsbergis , who had recently been elected President .

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, he received numerous international awards for his work, including the 2006 Master of Cinema Award from the Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival . Although best known for his feature films, Sokurov has also made over 20 documentaries. His film Russian Ark from the year 2002 is a documentary masterpiece and at the same time a world record is because there is only a single, 92-minute setting without any cut. (See also: Steadicam ).

In 2011 Sokurow presented Faust, a film adaptation of the tragedy of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe . The production with German-speaking actors - including Johannes Zeiler in the title role and Hanna Schygulla - earned him the Golden Lion of the 68th Venice International Film Festival in 2011. After Moloch (about Adolf Hitler ), Taurus (about Lenin) and Die Sonne (about the Japanese Emperor Hirohito ), the eight million euro production represents the last part of Sokurov's tetralogy about power and evil.

Sokurow had made 50 films by 2014.

politics

Sokurov was banned from further studies at the film school because of his political views and some of his films were banned in the Soviet Union. In 2008, 18 years after the end of the Soviet Union, he already formulated the danger of a military conflict with Ukraine or Kazakhstan.

In early 2012, Sokurov criticized President Putin in an open letter for deceiving Russian film art with commercial film funding. Sokurow criticizes capitalism as the "wrong way".

The fact that Sokurow's film Faust goes back a long way in history with its subject after the trilogy ( Hitler / Lenin / Hirohito ) is interpreted by the FAZ as meaning that it is about the portrait of a “power man who is still at the beginning” and will become asked whether Putin might find himself here if he had "admired this film, perhaps even privately sponsored it". According to Fred van der Kooij in the Tages-Anzeiger, Sokurow is very critical of Putin. According to Sokurov, Putin wanted to improve relations between Germany and Russia by helping to finance the film. In contrast, Sokurov hated the Soviet era so much that it was completely ignored in the film "Russian Ark". In 2012, the St. Petersburg City Duma voted against granting Sokurov honorary citizenship. The desecration of Lenin and alleged blasphemy in his works were mentioned as causes .

In 2014, Sokurov said that the use of military force against Ukraine would have irreversible consequences for Russia itself. He called on the Russian government to respect the Ukrainian desire for a state of its own. In addition, prisoners who are imprisoned for their political convictions must be released: "There have always been and there will always be people who defend democracy in our country, which is currently not in good shape."

In June 2015, on the occasion of an award ceremony in the Kremlin , Sokurov called on President Putin to “spare the lives of soldiers and officers”.

Filmography

Feature films

  • 1978–87: Одинокий голос человека (Eng .: A Lonely Voice of Man) (Eng .: The lonely voice of man)
  • 1980: Разжалованный (Eng .: The Degraded) (Eng .: The Degraded)
  • 1983–87: Скорбное бесчувствие (Eng .: Painful Indifference) ( Eng .: Sorrowful numbness )
  • 1986: Ампир (Eng., Ger .: Empire)
  • 1988: Дни затмения (eng .: Days of Eclipse) (dt .: Days of Darkness )
  • 1989: Спаси и сохрани (eng .: Save and Protect) (Eng .: Save and protect!)
  • 1990: Круг второй (Eng .: The Second Circle) (Eng .: The Second Circle)
  • 1992: Камень (eng .: Stone) (Eng .: the stone)
  • 1993: Тихие страницы (eng .: Whispering Pages) (Eng .: hidden pages)
  • 1996: Мать и сын (Eng .: Mother and Son) (Eng .: Mother and Son)
  • 1999: Молох (Eng., Ger .: Moloch)
  • 2001: Телец (eng., Dt.:Taurus)
  • 2002: Русский ковчег (Eng., Ger .: Russian Ark )
  • 2003: Отец и сын (eng .: Father and Son) (father and son)
  • 2005: Солнце (eng .: The Sun) (Eng .: The Sun)
  • 2007: Александра (Eng., Ger .: Alexandra)
  • 2011: Фауст (Eng., Ger .: Faust )
  • 2015: Francofonia

Documentaries

  • 1974: Самые земные заботы
  • 1975: Лето Марии Войновой
  • 1975: Позывные Р1НН (German: callsign R1NN)
  • 1978: Последний день ненастного лета
  • 1978–88: Мария (German: Maria)
  • 1979–89: Соната для Гитлера (Eng .: Sonata for Hitler) (Eng .: Sonata for Hitler)
  • 1981: Альтовая соната. Дмитрий Шостакович (Eng .: Sonata for Viola) (Eng .: Sonata for Viola)
  • 1982–87: И ничего больше (eng .: And Nothing More) (Eng .: And nothing more)
  • 1984–87: Жертва вечерняя (Eng .: Evening Sacrifice) (Eng .: Evening Sacrifice)
  • 1985–87: Терпение труд (eng .: patient labor) (eng .: patience and work)
  • 1985–86: Элегия (eng .: Elegy) (Eng .: Elegy)
  • 1986–87: Московская элегия (Eng .: Moscow Elegy) (Eng .: Moscow Elegy)
  • 1990: Петербургская элегия (Eng .: Petersburg Elegy) (Eng .: Petersburg Elegy)
  • 1990: Советская элегия (Eng .: Soviet Elegy) (Eng .: Soviet Elegy)
  • 1990: К событиям в Закавказье (eng .: On The Events in the Transcaucasus) (Eng .: On the events in the Transcaucasus)
  • 1990: Простая элегия (eng .: A Simple Elegy) (Eng .: Simple Elegy)
  • 1991: Ленинградская ретроспектива
  • 1991: Пример интонации (eng .: An Example of Intonation) (German: example of an intonation)
  • 1992: Элегия из России (Eng .: Elegy from Russia) (Eng .: example of an intonation)
  • 1995: Солдатский сон
  • 1995: Духовные голоса (eng .: Spiritual Voices) (Eng .: voices of the soul)
  • 1996: Восточная элегия (Eng .: Oriental Elegy) (Eng .: Eastern Elegy)
  • 1996: Робер. Счастливая жизнь Hubert (eng .: Robert. A Fortunate Life) (Eng .: Robert - a happy life)
  • 1997: Смиренная жизнь (Eng .: A Humble Life) (Eng .: A humble life)
  • 1997: Петербургский дневник. Открытие памятника Достоевскому
  • 1998: Петербургский дневник. Квартира Козинцева
  • 1998: Повинность (Eng .: Confession) (German: Confessions or confessions of a captain)
  • 1998: Узел. Беседы с Солженицыным (eng .: Uzel) (Eng .: knot. Conversations with Solzhenitsyn)
  • 1999: нежно (Eng., Ger .: Dolce ...)
  • 2001: Элегия дороги (eng .: Elegy of a Voyage) (Eng .: Elegy of a journey)
  • 2004: Петербургский дневник. Моцарт. Реквием
  • 2006: Элегия жизни: Ростропович, Вишневская
  • 2009: Интонации
  • 2009: Читаем блокадную книгу
  • 2011: Нам нужно счастье

Fonts

Awards (selection)

literature

  • François Albera (Ed.): Alexandre Sokourov. Corlet, Condé-sur-Noireau 2009, ISBN 978-2-84706-304-2 . (= CinémAction 133)
  • Birgit Beumers, Nancy Condee (Ed.): The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov. Tauris, London 2011, ISBN 978-1-84885-343-0 .
  • Mara Rusch: The Films by Aleksandr Sokurov. A look back at Russian-European history. edition text + kritik, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-86916-664-3 .

Web links

Commons : Alexander Sokurov  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bert Rebhandl, Soviet Elegien , in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 8, 2019, p. 12.
  2. ^ Golden Lion for the Russian film "Faust" at welt.de, September 10, 2011 (accessed on July 11, 2017).
  3. ↑ Christian Peitz: The soul has become cheap . In: Der Tagesspiegel , No. 21092, September 10, 2011, p. 5.
  4. ^ Vision and dream image - Alexander Sokurow's “Faust” film , 3sat.de, January 12, 2012
  5. ↑ Germany, pale motherland , FAZ, January 19, 2012
  6. ↑ Fred van der Kooij: “Sometimes his pictures also chatter” , Tages-Anzeiger, October 14, 2014
  7. ↑ Director Sokurow calls for Putin to release political prisoners , Tiroler Tageszeitung, June 3, 2014
  8. ↑ Opening speech at the award ceremony to present state awards of the Russian Federation , The Kremlin, June 12, 2015
  9. ↑ "EFA Honors Aleksandr Sokurov". Accessed June 12, 2017. http://www.europeanfilmawards.eu/en_EN/efa-honours-aleksandr-sokurov .
personal data
SURNAME Sokurow, Alexander Nikolajewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Соку́ров, Алекса́ндр Никола́евич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Podorwicha , Irkutsk Oblast , Soviet Union