Maria (1988)
A requiem for a Russian peasant woman, Maria Semionovna Voinova. The film is in two chapters. The first chapter consists of an impression of Maria Semionovna, scenes of the colours of summer time: hay–making, bathing in a river, work in the flax fields and a holiday in the Crimea. The second chapter, set nine years later, is in black and white and deals with how Maria Semionovna's life ended. The mood is one of a sad and elegiac narration.
Director: Aleksandr Sokurov
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Maria Semionovna Voinova as Self |
| Directing | Aleksandr Sokurov | Director |
| Editing | Leda Semyonova | Editor |
| Camera | Aleksandr Burov | Director of Photography |
| Art | Sergey Debizhev | Art Direction |
| Sound | Mikhail Podtukai | Sound |
| Production | Anatoly Nikiforov | Production Supervisor |
| Production | Tatiana Alioshkina | Production Manager |
| Sound | M. Glinka | Music |
| Sound | Alfred Schnittke | Music |
| Writing | Aleksandr Sokurov | Writer |