"Director: Alexander Sokurov"

• The Sun | DVD | (20/02/2006) from £9.94   |  Saving you £10.05 (101.11%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A natural companion piece to Downfall The Sun takes as its subject another major figure of World War II Japan's Emperor Hirohito. Made by Alexander Sokurov the acclaimed director of the hit Russian Ark the film examines the events leading up to Japan's surrender to the Allied forces in 1945 and the Emperor's historic address to his people which marked the first time they had ever heard his voice. Issei Ogata is superb as Hirohito the r

• Cinema 16 - World Short Films | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Cinema 16 celebrates the short film by showcasing some of the best classic and award winning shorts on DVD. Aside from providing short films with a much needed platform Cinema 16 gives filmmakers and movie-lovers access to some great films that would otherwise be near impossible to see from the fascinating early works of some of world's greatest directors to award-winning films from its most exciting new filmmakers. With over five hours of films World Cinema 16 is essential viewing for anyone with an interest in the moving image. The majority of the films are accompanied by audio commentaries almost always by the directors themselves. Titles Comprise: 1. Wasp - Andrea Arnold 2. Judgement - Park Chan-wook 3. Sikumi (On the Ice) - Andrew Okpeaha Maclean 4. Dona Lupe - Guillermo Del Torro 5. Old Lady and the Pigeons (La Vielle Dame et Les Pigeons) - Sylvain Chomet 6. Attack on the Bakery - Naoto Yamakawa 7. Two Cars One Night - Taika Waititi 8. Sonata for Hitler - Alexander Sokurov 9. My Dad is 100 Years Old - Guy Maddin 10. Forklift Truck Driver Klaus - First Day on the Job (Stablefahrer Klaus - Der Erste Arbeitstag) - Stefan Pehn and Jorg Wagner 11. Uncle - Adam Elliot 12. Quartet for the End of Time (Cuarteto Para el Fin de Tiempo) - Alfonso Cuaron 13. Madame Tutli-Putli - Chris Lavis and Maciek Szczarbowski 14. A Girls Own Story - Jane Campion 15. Borom Sarret - Ousmane Sembene 16. Soft - Simon Ellis

• Faust | DVD | (20/08/2012) from £10.78   |  Saving you £5.21 (48.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Winner of the Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival 2011. Russian screenwriter and director Alexander Sokurov's fifteenth feature film tells the story of scholar Heinrich Faust, a man with a great hunger for knowledge. Heinrich is not pleased with his mundane life, but when allured by Mephistopheles he becomes enchanted by a woman named Margarete. A wandering, philosophical and in-depth study of character about a man who makes a life-altering compromise for the sake of knowledge.

• Francofonia | DVD | (23/01/2017) from £7.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A history of the Louvre during the Nazi occupation and a meditation on the meaning and timelessness of art.

• Francofonia | Blu Ray | (23/01/2017) from £7.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A history of the Louvre during the Nazi occupation and a meditation on the meaning and timelessness of art.

• Mother And Son | DVD | (25/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Power Of A Tender Love Alexander Sokurov's extraordinarily lyrical film is a beautiful and tender exploration of the deep affection between an ailing mother and her devoted adult son. Set in a hauntingly beautiful landscape which Sokurov's camera transforms into stunning cinematic canvases the pair recall happier times as the dutiful son lovingly nurses his ailing mother in her final hours. The first part in a proposed trilogy about family bonds that continues with the captivating ""Father and Son"" ""Mother and Son"" is an emotional a poetic masterpiece of unique vision.

• Faust | Blu Ray | (20/08/2012) from £12.13   |  Saving you £7.86 (39.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Winner of the Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival 2011. Russian screenwriter and director Alexander Sokurov's fifteenth feature film tells the story of scholar Heinrich Faust, a man with a great hunger for knowledge. Heinrich is not pleased with his mundane life, but when allured by Mephistopheles he becomes enchanted by a woman named Margarete. A wandering, philosophical and in-depth study of character about a man who makes a life-altering compromise for the sake of knowledge.

• Father And Son | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Father (Andrej Shetinin) and Son (Alexei Nejmyshev) live together in a rooftop apartment. They have lived alone for years in their own private world full of memories and daily rituals. Sometimes they seem like brothers. Sometimes even like lovers. Following in his father's footsteps Alexei attends military school. He likes sports tends to be irresponsible and has problems with his girlfriend. She is jealous of Alexei's close relationship with his father. Despite knowing that all

• Moscow Elegy-Alexander Sokuro | DVD | (01/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Moscow Elegy is a part of the Elegy series created by our team at the Leningrad State Documentary Productions LSDF. The films in this series have in common an ""elegiac mood"" Moscow Elegy was originally intended to mark Tarkovsky's 50th birthday. But disagreements within the Soviet Professional Union of Cinematographers about the style and content of the film forced us to suspend production for a long time and the film was only completed after his death. This ""birthday gift"" was to be a dramatic event in my cinema career. ""The film is perception of the personality of the great film-maker and his destiny in the context of History. Let me add that our task was to create a special human approach towards the memory and personality of Tarkovsky. We attempted to treat the footage in a tender and caring way with kindness. We were not trying to embrace all aspects of Tarkovsky's life and work. We are speaking only about what he has left in his Motherland and what was going on during those years in the West where he had had to work."" Alexander Sokurov

• Spiritual Voices | DVD | (16/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In an isolated outpost between Tajikistan and Afghanistan in the heart of the huge Central Asian continental landmass Alexander Sokurov filmed during several months the daily lives of a brigade of Russian army border guards. Abandoned on the frontiers of a ruined empire they are left to face an omnipresent yet invisible enemy. A magnificent poem in five parts whose pace is set by the tensions of battle surveillance under a merciless sun and patrols along mine-laden mountain path

• Elegy Of The Land - Maria/Last Day Of A Rainy Summer | DVD | (01/08/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Following the acclaimed first release of Confession Spiritual Voices and Sonata For Viola Quantum Leap & Ideale Audience International are proud to announce the release of a new title in the Alexander Sokourov DVD Collection ELEGY OF THE LAND presents two films by Alexander Sokurov the earliest works of the filmmaker that he has allowed to be made public. A requiem in memory of a Russian peasant woman MARIA (40 minutes) starts as a colourful summer impression of Maria Voinova who grew flax all her life. The audience is plunged into a pastoral atmosphere as we see her haymaking harvesting bathing in the river working in the flax fields and holidaying at a Black Sea resort. Several years later Maria died tragically. The film crew returned to the village of Vedenino some months after her death. Everything there had changed LAST DAY OF A RAINY SUMMER (30 minutes) documents the daily life of an ordinary collective farm in the U.S.S.R. in 1978 : hard-working people who love their work just because they are brought up to do so with almost no rewards from life and in an atmosphere contaminated with official rhetoric.