Country: Russia, Belgium, Estonia
Year: 2022
Duration: 78'
Once upon a time there were two tramps... No... three... No, it's four... But there were others, many different ones... I knew them. For a long time. Many years. But it was with them that I was cramped to be around. Then something happened and they disappeared. And for many years I didn't know anything about them. Once upon a time... and there were four of them... I was immersed in life and new troubles. But in recent years, from time to time, an inexplicable came to me, a feeling that someone was walking around me, walking, walking... At night I could hear voices, fragments of complex questions, words in foreign languages, moans, the howl of millions of voices... An inexplicable excitement seized me... That night the sky opened up... and off it went…
Biography
film director
Aleksandr Sokurov
(Podorvicha, Russia, 1951) studied cinema at VGIK in Moscow but left before completing his studies because of contrasts with the Goskino. In 1980 he began working at Lenfil'm, but only after perestroika could the films he made during this period be seen, like his debut film The Lonely Voice of Man (1978). In 1985 he inaugurated the series of Elegies and in the 1990's he experimented with digital technology in A Humble Life (1997) and Dolce (1999). He received world-wide recognition with Mother and Son (1997), Moloch (1999), Russian Ark (2002) and Father and Son (2003). In 2003, the Film Festival dedicated a complete retrospective to his opus. In 2011 his film Faust won Golden Lion in Venice Film Festival. In 2019 la sua scuola di cinema nel Kabardino-Balkaria, che ha lanciato giovani registi come Kantemir Balagov e Kira Kovalenko, è stata chiusa per via dei contrasti tra il regista e il governo russo. In 2019 the film foundation set up by Alexander Sokurov, which raised young directors such as Kantemir Balagov and Kira Kovalenko, has been closed after claims of government hostility.
FILMOGRAFIA
Finzione
Odinokiy golos cheloveka (La voce solitaria dell’uomo, 1978-1987), Razzhalovannyy (The Degrade, cm, 1980), Skorbnoye beschuvstviye (Una dolorosa indifferenza, 1983-1987), Ampir (cm, 1987), Dni zatmeniya (I giorni dell'eclisse, 1988), Spasi i sohrani (Salva e custodisci, 1989), Krug vtoroy (Il secondo cerchio, 1990), Kamen (Pietra, 1992), Tikhiye stranitsy (Pagine sommesse, 1994), Mat i syn (Madre e figlio, 1997), Molokh (Moloch, 1999), Telets (Taurus, 2001), Russkiy kovcheg (Arca russa, 2002), Otets i syn (Padre e figlio, 2003), Solntse (Il Sole, 2005), Aleksandra (Alexandra, 2007), Faust (id., 2011), Francofonia (id., 2015), Skazka (Fairytale, 2022).
Elegie
Elegiya (Elegia, cm, 1986), Moskovskaya elegiya (Elegia moscovita, 1987), Peterburgskaya elegiya (Elegia di San Pietroburgo, mm, 1990), Sovetskaya elegiya (Elegia sovietica, cm, 1990), Prostaya elegiya (Elegia semplice, 1990), Elegiya iz Rossii (Elegia dalla Russia... studi per un sogno, 1992), Vostochnaya elegiya (Elegia orientale, 1996), Elegiya dorogi (Elegia di un viaggio, 2001), Elegiya zhizni. Rostropovich. Vishnevskaya (Elegia della vita - Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya, 2006).
Documentari
I nichego bolshe (And Nothing More, 1987), Zhertva vechernyaya (Evening Sacrifice, 1987), Patience Labour (1987), Altovaya sonata. Dmitriy Shostakovich (Sonata for Viola. Dmitri Shostakovitch, 1988), Mariya (Maria, 1988), Sonata dlya Gitlera (Sonata for Hitler, 1989), K sobytiya v Zakavkazye (To the Events in Transcaucasia, 1990), Leningradskaya retrospektiva (1957-1990) (A Retrospection of Leningrad (1957-1990), 1990), An Example of Intonation (1991), Soldatskiy son (Soldier’s Dream, cm, 1995) , Dukhovnyye golosa (Spiritual Voices, 1995), Robert Schastlivaya zhizn (Hubert Robert. A Fortunate Life, 1996), Smirennaya zhizn (Una vita umile ,1997), Peterburgskij dnevnik: Otkrytie pamjatnika Dostoevskomu (Diario di San Pietroburgo: L’inaugurazione del monumento a Dostoevskij, 1997), Peterburgskij dnevnik: Kvartira Kozintseva (Diario di San Pietroburgo: L’appartamento di Konincev, 1998), Povinnost (Confession, 1998), The Dialogues with Solzhenitsyn (Uzel) (1998), Dolce (2000), Peterburgskij dnevnik: Mozart. Rekviem (Diario di San Pietroburgo: Mozart. Requiem, 2004), Citaem blokadnuju knigu (Leggendo il libro dell’assedio, 2009).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY: Alexander Sokurov. MUSIC: Murat Kabardokov. SOUND: Alexander Vanyukov. VOICES: Alexander Sagabashi, Vakhtang Kuchava, Fabio Mastrangelo, Lothar Deeg, Tim Ettelt, Pascal Slivansky. PRODUCER: Nikolay Yankin. PRODUCTION: Intonations.
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