Sokurov was innate inside Siberia in the officer's family in June 14, 1951. He graduated from either a Department of history of the Nizhny Novgorod University in 1974 and entered one of the VGIK studios the charted month. There he processed friends by owning Tarkovsky & was deeply influenced by his Mirror.

Virtually all of Sokurov's early features were banned by Soviet authorities. In the time period of his early period, he produced many infotainment, including an locate by using Solzhenitsyn and a reporting just about Grigori Kozintsev's flat in St Petersburg.

Mother & Boy (1996) was his number 1 internationally acclaimed feature. It was mirrored by Father & Boy (2003) which baffled a critics using its inexplicit homoeroticism. Between these ii arethe, Sokurov filmed a trilogy on the 20th-century politicians: Moloch (1999) just about Hitler, Taurus (2000) about Lenin, and A Sun (2004) all about Emperor Hirohito.

Sokurov occurs as Cannes Film Festival regular, four of his moving picture with debuted there of these by a single. Although he has been somewhat reluctant to cast accomplished actors inside his features, a Russian Film Academy awarded many Nike Awards to him. His virtually all commercially & critically successful effort up to now has been the semi-documentary Russian Arc (2002), acclaimed primarily for its visually hypnotic images.