FILM DIRECTOR

Alexander Sokurov

1951 - Today

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Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov, PAR (Russian: Александр Николаевич Сокуров; born 14 June 1951) is a Russian filmmaker. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Sokurov has received more than 392,308 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Alexander Sokurov is the 369th most popular film director (up from 430th in 2019), the 686th most popular biography from Russia (up from 793rd in 2019) and the 13th most popular Russian Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 390k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.72

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Alexander Sokurovs by language

Over the past year Alexander Sokurov has had the most page views in the with 295,926 views, followed by English (44,384), and Italian (17,911). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Chinese (209.17%), Malagasy (149.80%), and Albanian (113.45%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Alexander Sokurov ranks 369 out of 2,041. Before him are Walerian Borowczyk, Ladislas Starevich, Jacques Doillon, Emilio Fernández, Jerzy Hoffman, and Veljko Bulajić. After him are Héctor Babenco, Leos Carax, Alexandre Astruc, Alain Tanner, Neil Jordan, and Veit Harlan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Alexander Sokurov ranks 106. Before him are Pierre Lemaitre, Duncan Haldane, Dražen Dalipagić, Ernesto Zedillo, Roger Myerson, and Dee Dee Ramone. After him are Chen Chien-jen, Jakaya Kikwete, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Beverly D'Angelo, Julian Schnabel, and Ubol Ratana.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Sokurov ranks 686 out of 3,761. Before him are Viktor Hartmann (1834), Duke Alexander of Württemberg (1804), Marko Vovchok (1833), Yuriy Sedykh (1955), Valery Bryusov (1873), and Yevgeny Dragunov (1920). After him are Lucien Olivier (1838), Prince John Konstantinovich of Russia (1886), Vera Weizmann (1881), Igor Ansoff (1918), Dokka Umarov (1964), and Walter Weiß (1890).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Russia

Among film directors born in Russia, Alexander Sokurov ranks 13. Before him are Lev Kuleshov (1899), Vsevolod Pudovkin (1893), Leonid Gaidai (1923), Elem Klimov (1933), Eldar Ryazanov (1927), and Ladislas Starevich (1882). After him are Yuri Norstein (1941), Grigori Aleksandrov (1903), Gleb Panfilov (1934), Boris Barnet (1902), Mikhail Romm (1901), and Sergei Yutkevich (1904).

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Filmography

Mother and Son
Director
A man goes for a walk through the countryside with his dying mother.
Feb 20o 19976.689 / 10
Russian Ark
Director
A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.
May 22o 20027.343 / 10
Faust
Director
A doctor in early 19th-century Germany becomes infatuated with the sister of a man he unintentionally killed and bargains with the Devil incarnate to conjure their union in exchange for his soul.
Sep 8o 20116.626 / 10