Alexandra

• Startling and Dreamy. Mr. Sokuroz [is] among the most fascinationg filmmakers working today. - New York Times

The great Alexander Sokurov (Russian Ark, Mother and Son) has made a powerful anti-war film in which not a shot is fired. Russian opera legend Galina Vishnevskaya stars as an elderly woman visiting her grandson, an officer stationed among the bored, weary troops at a desolate military outpost. More myth than contemporary politics – the movie juxtaposes her womanly warmth with the hard steel of their weaponry; the value she places on their lives, with the pessimism of their mind set; her memories of family life and hopes for their future with the cynicism inherent in their mission. - Film Forum