limited space of a ship anchored in Arctic waters, the team filmed the sailors as they went about their routine activities. Soldier's Dream is another Sokurov film that deals with military themes. It contains no dialogue. This film actually came out of the material edited for one of the scenes in part three of Spiritual Voices. Soldier's Dream was screened at the Oberhausen Film Festival in Germany in 1995when Spiritual Voices was still at the editing stageas Sokurov's homage to the art critic and historian Hans Schlegel, in acknowledgement of his contributions in support of Eastern European filmmakers. He suffers from severe eyesight problems. Studio In 2010 Sokurov launched his personal course at the Kabardino-Balkarian State University in Nalchik. In 2015, 12 students graduated from his course, among them were such rising starts of cinema, as Kantemir Balagov, Vladimir Bitokov, Kira Kovalenko, and Alexander Zolotukhin. Political stance During a December 2016 meeting of the Council for Culture and Arts, Sokurov appealed to President Vladimir Putin to reconsider the verdict against filmmaker Oleg Sentsov (which Putin refused). In 2022, Sokurov criticized Kremlin and opposed the war in Ukraine. For this, in June 2022 he was denied the right to leave Russia. Filmography Feature films Other works The Degraded (Разжалованный, 1980) Sonata for Viola. Dmitri Shostakovitch (1981) Empire (Ампир, 1986) Elegy (1986) And Nothing More (1987) Evening Sacrifice (1987) Patience of Labour (1987) Maria (Peasant Elegy) (1988) Moscow Elegy (1988) Sonata for Hitler (1989) Soviet Elegy (1989) Petersburg Elegy (1990) To The Events In Transcaucasia (1990) A Simple Elegy (1990) A Retrospection of Leningrad (1957–1990) (1990) An Example of Intonation (1991) Elegy from Russia (1992) Soldier's Dream (1995) Spiritual Voices (1995) Oriental Elegy (1996) Robert. A Fortunate Life (1997) A Humble Life (1997) The St. Petersburg Diary: Inauguration of a monument to Dostoevsky (1997) The St. Petersburg Diary: Kosintsev's Flat (1998) Confession (1998) The Dialogues with Solzhenitsyn (1998) dolce… (1999) Elegy of a Voyage (2001) The St. Petersburg Diary: Mozart. Requiem (2004) Elegy of a life: Rostropovich, Vishnevskaya (2006) Awards Locarno International Film Festival, Bronze Leopard (The Lonely Voice of Man, 1987) Moscow International Film Festival, FIPRESCI Award (out of competition, The Lonely Voice of Man, 1987) Berlin International Film Festival, Award of the Forum special programme (Days of Eclipse, 1989) International Film Festival Rotterdam, FIPRESCI Award, KNF Award (Elegy, A Simple Elegy, 1991) State Prize of the Russian Federation (Mother and