Metaphysician, lyrical poet, innovator, film devotee, passionate defender of humanitarian values. Alexander Sokurov was born 14 June 1951 in the village of Podorvikha in Irkutsk Region. In 1974 he graduated from the History Faculty of Gorky University, and in 1979 he finished the Directing Faculty of VGIK, the national film institute. In 1978 he made his first full-length feature film “The Lonely Voice of Man ”. From 1980 onwards he has been a producer at Lenfilm studios. He is the author of more than forty feature and documentary films. He has participated in and won prizes at festivals in Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Locarno, Rotterdam, Montreal, and Moscow. He lives and works in St Petersburg.
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