The Lonely Voice of Man

The Lonely Voice of Man
Directed byAlexander Sokurov
Written byYuri Arabov
Andrei Platonov (book)
Produced byO. Migacheva
S. Gurevich
StarringTatyana Goryacheva
Alexander Gradov
Vladimir Degtyarev
Lyudmila Yakovleva
Nikolai Kochegarov
CinematographySergey Yurizditsky
Edited byA. Bespalova (1978)
Leda Semenova (1987)
Music byKrzysztof Penderecki
Otmar Nussio
Alexander Burdov
Distributed byLenfilm
Release date
  • 1987 (1987)
Running time
87 minutes
CountrySoviet Union
LanguageRussian

The Lonely Voice of Man (Russian: Одинокий голос человека), also known as The Lonely Human Voice, is the first full-feature film by Alexander Sokurov. It was originally filmed in 1978 and reconstructed in 1987 at the Lenfilm studios. The film is largely based on Andrei Platonov's River Potudan and Origin of the Master, although it is not a direct film adaptation in the traditional sense but rather a recreation of the spiritual nature of Platonov's prose.