'' Mother and Son '' ( 1997 ) was his first internationally acclaimed feature film . It was entered into the 20th Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Special Silver St. George . It was mirrored by '' Father and Son '' ( 2003 ) , which baffled the critics with its implicit homoeroticism ( though Sokurov himself has criticized this particular interpretation ) . Susan Sontag included two Sokurov features among her ten favorite films of the 1990s , saying : " There ’s no director active today whose films I admire as much . " In 2006 , he received the Master of Cinema Award of the International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg
20th Moscow International Film Festival
20th Moscow International Film Festival
Alexander Sokurov