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ALEXANDER SOKUROV Director & Screenwriter

Alexander Sokurov was born in Siberia in 1951 and studied history at the University of Gorky before attending the Moscow Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), where he met and befriended Andrei Tarkovsky. His graduation film The Lonely Voice of Man (1978) was rejected by the school and the Soviet government and his films continued to be banned for nearly ten years. With support from the then exiled Tarkovsky, Sokurov's films were eventually granted screening permission in 1986.

Since 1980 he has lived and worked in St. Petersburg as a director of feature films and documentaries.
In 1995 he was declared one of best international directors by the European Academy of Cinema, and he is the winner of the 1998 International Vatican Prize 'Third Millennium' (for the development of humanist ideas in cinematic art).