A superb director but where to begin?
Let it be known that I have preordered this item from Amazon but to my knowledge these films by Sokurov have never actually been available to American audiences on home video form much less in blu-ray. Speaking of which thank you people at Cinema Guild for realizing what an important films/director this is. Again, to my knowledge these are the first films of Sokurov to get a blu-ray release in America. So, for the record I have not actually seen any of these films but many others by the famed director and highly anticipate them.
Sokurov is the equivilent of Russian greats in films as Tarkovsky in the 1960s and 1970s as well as Eisenstein in the 1920s 30s and 40s. In America he might be compared with such greats as Kubrick, Speilberg, or what Bergman did for Sweden/Kurosawa for Japan Sokurov has done for Russia especially since the end of the Cold War.
Sokurov came to international fame in the late 1990s (although he did many films,documentaries before this...
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