Born in 1951 in Russia. During his childhood his family frequently moved from one place to another, thus he first went to school in Poland and graduated in Turkmenia. In 1974 he got his first degree in History from the Gorky University, and in 1975 he entered the Producer’s Department at the All-Union Cinematography Institute, where he was granted the Eisenstein Scholarship.
His first feature film, “The Lonely Voice of a Man,” was not accepted as a graduating project. It was at that time that he received support from the outstanding film director Andrey Tarkovsky, who wrote him a recommendation letter to be employed by the film studio “Lenfilm” in 1980, where he worked on his first feature films.
In the late 80s a number of his early feature and documentary films were released for public and represented the Russian film industry at many international festivals.
He has been a participant and laureate of many international festivals, where he received many awards including: the FIPRESSI Award at Cannes Film Festival, the Tarkovsky Award, the Russian State Award (1997) and the Vatican Award, “Third Millennium” (1998).
In 1995 the European Film Academy listed Sokurov as being among the best 100 directors of world cinema.
At the present moment he is in the process of founding a film studio, “Bereg,” for non-commercial feature and documentary films.
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