Russian Ark Confession has been screened at several independent film festivals, while the other two are virtually unknown. However, until , Sokurov didn't win top awards at major international festivals. Sokurov is a Cannes Film Festival regular, with four of his movies having debuted there. For a long time, his most commercially and critically successful film was the semi-documentary Russian Ark , acclaimed primarily for its visually hypnotic images and single unedited shot.
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