Acclaimed director Alexander Sokurov's beautiful new film explores the enclosed all-male environment of a Russian troop regiment in war-torn Chechnya. In the oppressive heat of a remote military outpost an old woman (legendary Russian opera star Galina Vishnevskaya) arrives in search of her twenty-seven-year-old grandson whom she has not seen in seven years. What she discovers is a world devoid of warmth or comfort and with a constant undercurrent of violence in which questions of life and death are decided every hour of every day. Exquisitely photographed and directed... Alexandra is an extraordinary examination of masculinity and the mental and physical scars wrought by conflict. [show more]
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2007 film, directed by Alexsandr Sokurov, depicting the life of a group of Russian soldiers in war-torn Chechnya. Seen from the perspective of an old woman, the film explores family relationships in a masculine world full of violence, fear and death. Alexandra (Galina Vishnevskaya) travels to Chechnya to find her grandson (Vasily Shevtsov) whom she has not seen for seven years. Able, because of her age, to move apparently freely between the military and the civilian population, Alexandra discovers the everyday aspirations and motivations of characters on both sides of the conflict.
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