In a fortress perched high above the clouds, everything seems in order for a peaceful 24 hours of table talk and strolls amidst dramatic mountain views. Even if it is the spring of 1942 in Germany. But the confusions of a woman caught up in the complexities of a man incapable of human intimacy have made Eva Braun as volcanic as her beloved Hitler. Hers is the only voice that dares contradict the Führer. -Celluloid Dreams
Alexander Nikolayevich Sokurov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Соку́ров) (b. June 14, 1951, Podorwikha, Irkutsk Oblast) is a Russian filmmaker from St Petersburg who has been hailed as successor to renowned director Andrei Tarkovsky.
Sokurov was born in Siberia in the officer’s family on June 14, 1951. He graduated from the History Department of the Nizhny Novgorod University in 1974 and entered one of the VGIK studios the following year. There he made friends with Tarkovsky and was deeply influenced by his Mirror.
Most of Sokurov’s early features were banned by Soviet authorities. During his early period, he produced numerous documentaries, including an interview with Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and a reportage about Grigori Kozintsev’s flat in St Petersburg.
Mother and Son (1996) was his first internationally acclaimed feature film. It was mirrored by Father and Son (2003) which baffled the critics with its implicit homoeroticism (though Sokurov himself has criticized… read more
Aleksandr Sokurov finishes his tetralogy of power with a magnificent, grotesque adaptation of Goethe’s Faust.
This movie carries the same mistakes many other works have committed when dealing with Hitler: depicting him as a mad man or an overly futile person.
In Moloch this is carried to the extreme… read review
MOLOCH should’ve been called ADOLF HITLER’S DAY OFF. The way the fuhrer and his friends waltz around a beautiful mountaintop castle is clownish and humbling at the same time. It’s an authentic portrait… read review
