Alexander Burov

camera, photographer

Alexander Burov was born on 2 August 1958 in Leningrad. In 1981 Alexander graduated from the Camera Department at the All-Union Institute for Cinematography (VGIK, Studio of T. Lobova).

Alexander worked for various film and TV studios in Saint Petersburg (Leningrad), Moscow and abroad, including some necro-realistic works.

Director of Photography in the following Sokurov's films:

Documentaries:
1985–86 — “Elegy” (with L. Rozhin and A. Krasnova)
1985–87 — “Patience Labor”
1982–87 — “And Nothing More” (with L. Rozhin and A. Krasnova)
1984–87 — “Evening Sacrifice”
1986–87 — “Moscow Elegy” (with A. Naidenov)
1978–88 — “Maria”
1989 — “Petersburg Elegy”
1989 — “Soviet Elegy”
1990 — “To the Events in the Transcaucasian Region” (with M. Shnurnikov)
1990 — “Simple Elegy”
1991 — “An Example of Intonation”
1992 — “An Elegy from Russia”
1995 — “Spiritual Voices” (with A. Fedorov)

Feature films:
1990 — “Second Circle”
1992 — “Stone”
1993 — “Whispering Pages”
2003 — “Father and son”
2006 — “Alexandra”