1997, 75 min., colour, BETACAM SP, Stereo 　　The Japan Foundation, North Foundation, Pandora Co., Ltd (Japan) 　　Special thanks to Hiroko Kodjima 　　scenario: A. Sokurov 　　camera: A. Fedorov 　　sound: S. Moshkov 　　editor: L. Semenova 　　“My journey to your sorrowful country cannot finish… even here in Russia. 　　I can't part with feelings which have captured me… as if my soul had been in search of Beauty and Kindness. If not — what for have I deserved this gift, this meeting… 　　I have arrived in the twilight. The noise of the wind and my tiredness didn't let me fall asleep. 　　I was lying on the floor, there was a small lamp at my head, the bedding had been thrown over the mat. 　　I don't know why, but I began to think about the war, and the scenes of unknown life appeared before me from the past… or, perhaps, from the future; Somebody’s children… somebody's mothers… 　　The summer was warm… 　　Then the morning came, windy, cold and sunny… I examined the house cautiously. It was empty… 　　Then, I remember, I turned back, having heard a creak. 　　It seemed she had not yet noticed me… I decided to come nearer. 　　I can remember well enough, how everything became interesting: walls, utensils, wind, light, sounds — all her life. 　　We agreed that she would let me stay near her all the time All the hours and minutes that I could spend in her old house. I sat near her with her permission. And it was really necessary: I could contem­plate her to my heart's content.” 　　Alexander Sokurov (from the author's text to the film) 　　A myth about lost harmony, which is always with us, though we often cannot feel it, is further developed in this film by Alexander Sokurov. The material used here is concrete and, at first sight, quite fit for TV. The whole work is unhurried and detailed report from an old solitary house, lost in the mountains, in the village of Aska, prefecture Nara, Japan, where an old woman, whose name is Umeno Matshueshi, lives alone. But filmmaker's creative task is quite opposed to the TV information stream. It is not only because this subject, this person couldn't be of any interest for any TV crew in any country (and least of all, perhaps, in modern Japan). 　　Sokurov's camera doesn't watch this character, doesn’t ask any questions, doesn’t surprise her, but extracts uninterrupted poetical image out of the trivial details of this physical reality, out of this extinct life and daily routine. The image is epic and lyrical at the same time. Refined simplicity of Japanese landscape, interior, a series of portraits are not a representation of “couleur local,” but only the sign of ideal technique of the ideal description, allowing to enter this life. The woman, who remains silent throughout the whole film, cooking and eating, kindling the fire and sewing, giving alms and combing her hair before us, recites in the final poem as a prayer: artless and sorrowful tanku about loneliness, about the constancy of losses and gainings. Sokurov shoots this unexpected stroke in his personage's portrait as a lyrical coda of his work.

1997, 75 min., colour, BETACAM SP, Stereo 　　The Japan Foundation, North Foundation, Pandora Co., Ltd (Japan) 　　Special thanks to Hiroko Kodjima 　　scenario: A. Sokurov 　　camera: A. Fedorov 　　sound: S. Moshkov 　　editor: L. Semenova 　　“My journey to your sorrowful country cannot finish… even here in Russia. 　　I can't part with feelings which have captured me… as if my soul had been in search of Beauty and Kindness. If not — what for have I deserved this gift, this meeting… 　　I have arrived in the twilight. The noise of the wind and my tiredness didn't let me fall asleep. 　　I was lying on the floor, there was a small lamp at my head, the bedding had been thrown over the mat. 　　I don't know why, but I began to think about the war, and the scenes of unknown life appeared before me from the past… or, perhaps, from the future; Somebody’s children… somebody's mothers… 　　The summer was warm… 　　Then the morning came, windy, cold and sunny… I examined the house cautiously. It was empty… 　　Then, I remember, I turned back, having heard a creak. 　　It seemed she had not yet noticed me… I decided to come nearer. 　　I can remember well enough, how everything became interesting: walls, utensils, wind, light, sounds — all her life. 　　We agreed that she would let me stay near her all the time All the hours and minutes that I could spend in her old house. I sat near her with her permission. And it was really necessary: I could contem­plate her to my heart's content.” 　　Alexander Sokurov (from the author's text to the film) 　　A myth about lost harmony, which is always with us, though we often cannot feel it, is further developed in this film by Alexander Sokurov. The material used here is concrete and, at first sight, quite fit for TV. The whole work is unhurried and detailed report from an old solitary house, lost in the mountains, in the village of Aska, prefecture Nara, Japan, where an old woman, whose name is Umeno Matshueshi, lives alone. But filmmaker's creative task is quite opposed to the TV information stream. It is not only because this subject, this person couldn't be of any interest for any TV crew in any country (and least of all, perhaps, in modern Japan). 　　Sokurov's camera doesn't watch this character, doesn’t ask any questions, doesn’t surprise her, but extracts uninterrupted poetical image out of the trivial details of this physical reality, out of this extinct life and daily routine. The image is epic and lyrical at the same time. Refined simplicity of Japanese landscape, interior, a series of portraits are not a representation of “couleur local,” but only the sign of ideal technique of the ideal description, allowing to enter this life. The woman, who remains silent throughout the whole film, cooking and eating, kindling the fire and sewing, giving alms and combing her hair before us, recites in the final poem as a prayer: artless and sorrowful tanku about loneliness, about the constancy of losses and gainings. Sokurov shoots this unexpected stroke in his personage's portrait as a lyrical coda of his work.

费拉兹、梅里姆和他们十岁儿子阿齐兹在去往南部国家度假的途中遭遇枪战,儿子被子弹误伤。阿齐兹急需肝脏移植,这不仅将夫妻二人的生活完全打乱,而且揭开了一个埋藏许久的秘密。阿齐兹能活下来吗?费拉兹、梅里姆二人的夫妻关系又将如何呢?

影片讲述的是一个发生在30年代的故事，那时爵士乐正风靡全美；吉普赛人德詹哥雷恩哈特是爵士乐坛的传奇人物，他当时被冠以“世界上最出色的爵士乐与吉它…

艾尔维拉（莉娅·迈伦 Lea Myren 饰）为了与她那美丽得令人发狂的继妹艾格尼斯（西娅·索菲·洛赫·内斯 Thea Sofie Loch Næss 饰）竞争，不惜一切代价。在这个童话王国里，美貌是一桩残酷的生意，她用鲜血、汗水和泪水努力吸引王子的目光。 　　该片是对经典童话《灰姑娘》的暗黑演绎。

艾尔维拉（莉娅·迈伦 Lea Myren 饰）为了与她那美丽得令人发狂的继妹艾格尼斯（西娅·索菲·洛赫·内斯 Thea Sofie Loch Næss 饰）竞争，不惜一切代价。在这个童话王国里，美貌是一桩残酷的生意，她用鲜血、汗水和泪水努力吸引王子的目光。 　　该片是对经典童话《灰姑娘》的暗黑演绎。

故事发生在如火如荼、如痴如狂的文革时期。大喇叭里传来了激昂亢进的革命歌曲，土墙上写着“横扫一切牛鬼蛇神”的革命标语。拿着弹弓的少年在村里走来走去，偶尔惹出一点小的祸端，被人马上两句也不以为意。她跳入某个寂静的院落，在布满落叶的地上发现了被火烧过的皮影道具。房间里传来一阵老人的咳嗽声，男孩偷偷张望过去，发现皮影老艺人叼着旱烟袋，一脸愁容兀自呆坐。曾经赖以为生的皮影戏在“破四旧”的浪潮中被踩在脚下，往昔的美好回忆一去不复返。男孩挑起皮影，隔着窗挑逗着老人，他向老人询问皮影的头在那里，老人却不发一言，想了想干脆给他重新画了一个。 　　在他们的心中，都有一个无法割舍的记忆……

故事发生在如火如荼、如痴如狂的文革时期。大喇叭里传来了激昂亢进的革命歌曲，土墙上写着“横扫一切牛鬼蛇神”的革命标语。拿着弹弓的少年在村里走来走去，偶尔惹出一点小的祸端，被人马上两句也不以为意。她跳入某个寂静的院落，在布满落叶的地上发现了被火烧过的皮影道具。房间里传来一阵老人的咳嗽声，男孩偷偷张望过去，发现皮影老艺人叼着旱烟袋，一脸愁容兀自呆坐。曾经赖以为生的皮影戏在“破四旧”的浪潮中被踩在脚下，往昔的美好回忆一去不复返。男孩挑起皮影，隔着窗挑逗着老人，他向老人询问皮影的头在那里，老人却不发一言，想了想干脆给他重新画了一个。 　　在他们的心中，都有一个无法割舍的记忆……

19世纪末20世纪初，在日本政府的动员下，大批的日本青年女性到海外卖淫为生，以此作为谋取外汇的手段之一，由此形成世界历史上罕见的卖淫人口大流动。由于南洋群岛是其最为庞大的聚集地之一，这群妇女被称为“南洋姐”。 　　本片与《回到无法松的故乡》《追寻未归还的士兵》（《泰国篇》《马来篇》）《续·追寻未归还的士兵》被导演今村昌平本人合称为“弃民”系列，“不是他们抛弃了日本不回来，而是因为被抛弃了而无法回来。”

19世纪末20世纪初，在日本政府的动员下，大批的日本青年女性到海外卖淫为生，以此作为谋取外汇的手段之一，由此形成世界历史上罕见的卖淫人口大流动。由于南洋群岛是其最为庞大的聚集地之一，这群妇女被称为“南洋姐”。 　　本片与《回到无法松的故乡》《追寻未归还的士兵》（《泰国篇》《马来篇》）《续·追寻未归还的士兵》被导演今村昌平本人合称为“弃民”系列，“不是他们抛弃了日本不回来，而是因为被抛弃了而无法回来。”