‘Director's Diary’ is a journey, with no pretense of conclusion, a unique reading of the history of the second half of the twentieth century. A grandiose work with multiple meanings, a spiritual biography of the author set against the backdrop of thousands of faces from an immense country and thousands of events from the pulsating life of the entire globe. The film is like a book that the viewer reads, flipping through the pages of history. The viewer can follow, analyze, and imagine their own internal connections, the allusions to the events of the twentieth century. In this film, literature and cinema merge in a single flow that transcends documentary genres.
Alexander Sokurov
Born in 1955 in the Siberian village of Podorvikha. He graduated from the History Department of Gorky University (now Nizhny Novgorod). He then studied at the Filmmaking Department of the Moscow Institute of Cinematography, where in his final years he clashed with Soviet censorship. He began making films in 1975. He is the author of over 50 feature films and documentaries, with films like ‘The Lonely Voice of Man’ (1987), ‘Mother and Son’ (1997), ‘Russian Ark’ (2002), ‘Father and Son’ (2003), ‘Moloch’ (2009), ‘Faust’ (2011) or ‘Fairytale’ (2022), that have repeatedly participated in the most prestigious international film festivals. His films have won awards at Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Locarno and Rotterdam, and among numerous recognitions, the director received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the European Film Academy.
DIRECTOR
Alexander Sokurov
SCREENPLAY
Alexander Sokurov
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Alexander Zolotukhin
EDITOR
Alexander Zolotukhin, Juri Cerusico
SOUND
Konstantin Chervyakov, Aleksandr Koznov, Sergei Figner, Raffaele Petrucci
MUSIC
Andrey Sigle
PRODUCTION
Alexander Sokurov, Alena Shumakova, Paolo Maria Spina, Giuseppe Lepore
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Example of Intonation Foundation, Revolver, Bielle Re
