Aleksandr Cherednik

Grace (2024)

In Russia, an introverted father and his teenage daughter live on the road in a van that contains their entire life, including the equipment for a travelling cinema: the source of their meager income. Povolotsky builds on the undeniable art of the long tak ...

Swan Lake (2021)

The governor asks his wife to stage this beloved folk ballet, which should be good PR for his upcoming elections. But it turns out that Swan Lake is also a ballet about two worlds. Trying to fulfill her husband's order, the governor's wife breaks out of th ...

Reverberation (2014)

An employee of the insurance company, Oleg Kogy along with his wife Olga, decide to use his official position and swindle an insurance policy. They insure the Oleg's life for a large amount, simultaneously taking out loans in several banks where 'Oleg Kogi ...

Hard to Be a God (2014)

A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Their task is a difficult one: they cannot interfere violently and in no case can the ...

Сильная (2011)

Petersburg (2003)

A poetic essay on the city of St. Petersburg in the 18th century, based on poems by Alexander Pushkin and Alexander Blok and a novel by Andrey Belyi. The film contains reworked footage from Aleksey Batalov's "Overcoat", Eisenstein´s "Strike", Petrov's "Pe ...

Svetlana (1997)

The short film is based on the ballad of the same name by Vasily Andreevich Zhukovsky. The plot is based on Gottfried Bürger's ballad "Lenora. ...

Whispering Pages (1994)

An anonymous man wanders through decomposing, fog-enshrouded catacombs and encounters a series of "the degraded and the humiliated," including a holy prostitute and a Kafkaesque bureaucrat. ...

Save and Protect (1990)

Inspired by Flaubert's Madame Bovary, Sokurov's Save and Protect recalls the most crucial events of Emma's decline and fall: affairs with the aristocratic Rodolphe and the student Leon, the humiliation that follows her husband's botching of the operation o ...

I'll Take Your Pain (1981)

After a long prison sentence, former Nazi collaborator Shishkovich returns to the village, guilty of the deaths of his fellow villagers. Ivan, whose sister and mother were killed, cannot calmly accept his return. ...