The name of the director and screenwriter Alexander Sokurov is known throughout the world. People's Artist of Russia made about forty films. In the history of cinema, the Honored Art Worker left his mark forever.
Sokurov's film debut took place in the seventies. He took off the documentary "The car is gaining reliability."
Way to the cinema
The future director was born in 1951, on June 14, in the family of a military man. I had to move often: Sasha started her studies in Poland, graduated from school in Turkmenistan.
From early childhood, the boy listened to literary broadcasts. He really liked them. Then the first acquaintance with the directing took place.
In 1968, Alexander Nikolaevich went to study at the historical faculty of Gorky University. The student became interested in television. He began work in the editorial board of art broadcasting. Then the young man became an assistant director. Sokurov began to release his own programs. They were followed by television films, sports programs, live programs.
An aspiring TV player then tested many professions and mastered almost all genres. The only and most valuable teacher Sokurov calls Yuri Bespalov, director of the Gorky editorship of painting. The student body ended in 1974.
Alexander Nikolaevich decided to enter VGIK. In 1975, he again began his studies at the directing department. Sokurov worked in the creative workshop of Zguridi. There was an acquaintance with future cameraman Sergei Yurizdsky and screenwriter Yuri Arabov. Everyone saw Sokurov's talent, they admired his work. The student received the prestigious Sergey Eisenstein Prize. The future director passed the exams a year earlier, in 1979.
The thesis was the short film "The Lonely Voice of a Man" according to the script of Arabov. The action takes place around the Red Army soldier Nikita Firsov who returned home after the Civil War, who fell in love with the girl Lyuba. Subsequently, the picture won a lot of international awards.
Vocation Activities
Director's work started at Lenfilm. The novice director also collaborated with the Leningrad documentary film studio. The first works of Sokurov did not go on hire for a very long time. After being shown in the eighties, they were highly praised at international festivals.
In 1981, a film was made in the genre of the tragic requiem, "Dmitry Shostakovich. Alto Sonata." The painting shows the story of a brilliant composer and the tragedy of an unaccepted artist.
For a decade, Alexander Nikolaevich produced films. Then he began to engage in novice directors at the Lenfilm film studio. Together with Japanese filmmakers, Sokurov shot several documentaries on television from the Land of the Rising Sun. In 1995, the name of the Russian director was included in the list of the hundred best directors in the world.
Alexander Nikolaevich became a celebrity. Retrospectives of his work take place to this day in different countries. Among the many awards of the master is the prestigious FIPRESCI Prize. Sokurov was also awarded the Vatican Award. He was nominated forty times at prestigious competitions. Twenty-six nominations became victorious.
In 1994, the premiere of the existential drama "Quiet villages" took place. The film gives a peculiar interpretation of the works of Russian prose writers of the century before last. The plot of Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky is based on. The director tried to restore the atmosphere shown to the book of the great Dostoevsky.
The whole life of the master is given to the cinema. Alexander Nikolaevich did not have time to create a family. They tried to ascribe many novels to him, but all the information was not confirmed. Even in the future, the biography does not plan the search for the future wife.
