Аннотация:Once regarded as solely a literary device, ekphrasis—the re-presentation in one medium of a representation in another medium—has been part of filmmakers’ toolset since cinema’s inception. New technologies introduced over the past thirty years have enhanced the quality and quantity of ekphrastic re-presentation across media and expanded the functions ekphrastic allusions play in film narrative. Aleksandr Sokurov relies heavily on ekphrasis, but the tendency to interpret his work relying on ostensible themes has led to confusion about his parametric narratives (here following David Bordwell, Narration in the Fiction Film), particularly interpretation of the ekphrastic allusions on which those narratives build. The present paper proposes a revision of held opinion on Sokurov’s film Otets i syn (Father and Son, 2003) through a close reading that explicates ekphrastic allusions, their sources, and the ways in which they combine to form narrative, offering a possible framework for analysis and interpretation of Sokurov’s other films.