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Edition 2022
Films
Festivals and Awards:
Locarno Film Festival 2022 - Official Selection in Competition
Crew:
Screenplay: Aleksandr Sokurov
Producer: Nikolay Yankin
Producer: Nikolay Yankin
Once upon a time there were two vagabonds... no... three... No, it’s four... But there were others, many different ones... I knew them. For a long time. But with them I felt cramped. Then something happened and they disappeared. At night I could hear voices, fragments of complex questions, moans, the howl of millions of voices... An inexplicable excitement seized me…
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Cast:
Alexander Sagabashi, Vakhtang Kuchava, Fabi Mastrangelo -
Original Title:
Skazka -
Country:
Russia, Latvia, Belgium -
Year:
2022 - 78’ IT, EN, RU, AL, Subtitles: PT, EN
Festivals and Awards:
Locarno Film Festival 2022 - Official Selection in Competition
Crew:
Screenplay: Aleksandr Sokurov
Producer: Nikolay Yankin
Producer: Nikolay Yankin
Director
Aleksandr Sokurov

Aleksandr Sokurov was born on June 4, 1951, in Siberia. Is a Russian director and screenwriter, approved in St. Petersburg, considered the successor of Andréi Tarkovsky.He graduated in History at the University of Nizhni Novgorod, in 1974, and started working at the Gerassimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) the following year. Aleksandr Sokurov's first films were censored by the Soviet authorities. Mother and Son (1996) was his first film to be awarded at the 20th Moscow International Film Festival with the Silver Saint George. Aleksandr Sokurov collects several awards at festivals in Berlin, Cannes, Moscow, Toronto, and Locarno. He won the Golden Lion for his film Faust (2011) at the 68th edition of Venice International Film Festival.