Aleksandr SOKOEROV (1951, USSR) studeerde aan de Moskouse filmacademie VGIK. Hij is wereldwijd bekend om zijn pure, compromisloze cinema. Met zijn videofilms was Sokoerov in 1998 Film Maker in Focus in Rotterdam. Met zijn speelfilms en documentaires won hij vele prijzen, waaronder een ere-Luipaard tijdens het Locarno International Film Festival in 2006.
Maria (Krestjanskaja elegija)/Maria (Peasant Elegy) (1975, short), Odinokii golos cheloveka/The Lonely Voice of Man (1978), Razzhalovannyi/Degraded (1980, short), Sonata dlja Gitlera/Sonata for Hitler (1980, short), Al'tovaya sonata: Dmitrii Shostakovich/Sonata for Viola (1981), I nichego bolshe/And Nothing More (1982), Skorbnoe beschuvstvie/Painful Indifference (1983), Zhertva vechernyaya/Evening Sacrifice (1984, short), Terpenie, trud/Patience Labour (1985, short), Elegiya/Elegy (1985), Moskovskaya Elegiya/Moscow Elegy (1986), Ampir/The Empire Style (1987, short), Dni zatmeniya/Days of Eclipse (1988), Spasi i sokhrani/Save and Protect (Madame Bovary) (1989), Sovjetskaya elegiya/Soviet Elegy (1989, short), Peterburgskaya Elegiya/Petersburg Elegy (1990, short), Prostaya Elegiya/Simple Elegy (1990), Krug vtoroi/The Second Circle (1990), K Sobytiyam v Zakavkaz'e/To the Events in Transcaucasia (1990, short), Leningradskaya retrospektiva/Leningrad Retrospective (1957-1990), Primer intonatsii/An Example of Intonation (1991, short), Kamen'/Stone (1992), Elegiya iz Rossii/Elegy From Russia (1993), Tikhie stranitsy/Whispering Pages (1993), Dukhovnye golosa/Spiritual Voices (1995), Vostochnaya Elegiya/Oriental Elegy (1996, short), Robert: Schastlivaya zhizn'/Hubert Robert: A Fortunate Life (1996, short), Smirennaya zhisn'/Humble Life (1997), Mat' y sin/Mother and Son (1997), Povinnost'/Confession (1998), Uzel/The Knot (1998), Molokh/Moloch (1999), Dolce (2000), Taurus (2001), Elegy of a Voyage/Elegiya dorogi (2001) Russkij kovcheg/Russian Ark (2002), Otets i syn/Father and Son (2003), Petersburgski dvevnik. Motsart. Rekviem/Diary of Saint Petersburg - Mozart. Requiem (2004, doc), Solntse/The Sun (2004), Elegiya zhizni. Rostropovich. Vishnevskaya/Elegy of Life: Rostropovich Vishnevskaya (2006), Alexandra (2007), Chitaem blockadnuju knigu/Reading Book of Blockade