Aleksandr Sokurov

Aleksandr Sokurov worked in the shadow of Tarkovsky - whom he knew personally - while developing a radically different cinema of distorted lenses, muted color, and historical consciousness. Russian Ark (2002) was the first feature film shot in a single, uninterrupted take, moving through 33 rooms of the Hermitage Museum with 2,000 actors and three live orchestras. His Power Tetralogy - films about Hitler, Lenin, Hirohito, and Napoleon - examines the psychology of dictatorship.