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Aleksei Yuryevich German (Алексей Юрьевич Герман, 20 July 1938 – 21 February 2013) was a Soviet and Russian director, screenwriter and producer. He is noted for his stark pessimism, long, serpentine sequence shots, black and white cinematography, overbearing sound design and acute observations of Stalinist Russia.
Total trailers found: 30
07 October 1995
One of the three films that comprise Arrival of a Train, a collection of shorts made to celebrate the centenary of cinema.
06 June 1987
1945 год, война позади. Восемнадцатилетний сержант Сергей Кружкой после тяжелого ранения возвращается домой.
10 August 1977
A story of a three friends childhood in the sieged during WWII Leningrad.
27 February 2014
A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress.
12 December 1986
In a desolate world following the nuclear apocalypse, a scholar helps a small group of adults and children survive in the basement of a former museum of history.
08 October 1996
Almanac of five short stories commissioned by ROSKOMKINO to celebrate the 100th anniversary of cinema.
26 December 1994
Closely based on Franz Kafka's book "Das Schloß", the movie shares the same action on a land surveyor who is called to a village to do a job that no one seems to have ordered.
17 April 1982
Follows the director of a large plant, acutely aware of his personal responsibility to society for everything he is involved in.
01 August 1983
In 1944 a Soviet marine air force unit stationed near Murmansk is fighting off the German bombers attacking the British navy convoys supplying the Soviet Union with war materials under the lend-lease agreement.
29 April 2019
Veteran film historian and critic Ron Holloway interviews the Russian director.
03 January 1985
Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do.
20 April 1981
Accountant Sergey Ivanovich is retiring. Finally, he will be able to devote all his free time to his family: he will help his daughter Natalya with the housework, raise his granddaughter, visit his sons who live in different cities.
13 January 1999
Military doctor General Klenski is arrested in Stalin's Russia in 1953 during an anti-Semitic political campaign accused of being a participant in so-called "doctors' plot".
04 November 1985
The main character, nineteen-year-old Anastasiy Chizhov, was appointed commander of the Zver patrol ship.
01 April 1986
Shot in 1971 but banned until 1986, this distinctly Russian war story takes place in 1942 behind enemy lines.
01 October 2012
A portrait of the Russian filmmaker Alexei Guerman via an exploration of the making of his latest film, an adaptation of It Is Difficult to Be a God, a science-fiction novel by the Strougaski brothers, on which he has been working for several years, Hard to Be God explores the director's complex relationships with his crew, who he rules with a rod of iron.
01 December 1991
A staggering historical epic about the intrigue and turmoil of the East Asian civilization of Otrar, before its systematic destruction at the hands of Genghis Khan.
21 August 2002
"German. Lenfilm "was filmed as part of the project" Petersburg 300 " and is dedicated to Alexey Yuryevich Herman.
26 November 1967
A portrait of the era of "Red Terror" during the civil war that followed the Bolshevik revolution, The Seventh Companion offers a character study in General Adamov (Andrei Popov), a law professor in the tsarist army, who is incarcerated by the Bolshevik secret police along with many other members of the bourgeoisie.
25 April 1966
Leonid Pleshcheyev returned from the war blind. Against his will, he became a dependent. He drowns his grief in unrestrained drunkenness, thereby tormenting his wife Mariya and his teenage son Lyonka.
17 August 2023
A story about the creative biography of Alexei German Sr. through the prism of his latest film - It's Hard to Be a God.
08 November 1976
War correspondent Lopatin takes a 20-day-leave from his hard work at the front in 1942. He travels to faraway Tashkent to meet the family of the killed soldier and visit the film set of the screen adaptation of his war-time stories.
24 June 1987
End of XVII century, Dagestan. A young outlaw named Khochbar accompanies the daughter of the nutsal of Khunzakh Khanate, Saadat, who was married for political reasons to the son of the Shamkhal of Tarki.
24 March 1982
The story of six-year-old Bobka, a kind and cheerful man who lives in Leningrad and desperately dreams of unexpectedly visiting his dad, who serves in the distant Caucasus Mountains.
01 January 1996
A free film adaptation of the director's memoirs. In form, this is the "stream of consciousness" that attracted Sergei Eisenstein after getting acquainted with the experiments of James Joyce.
06 June 1995
A detective-dramatic chronicle of love adventures of the famous Russian ballerina Olga Spesivtseva, nicknamed by contemporaries Red Giselle.
01 October 1990
This film was broadcast on La Sept in October 1990 as a part of Hélène Mochiri's Cinéma de poche program devoted to Soviet cinema.
01 January 1989
The 1950s. The head of the steel industry was removed from his position and appointed ambassador to one of the northern countries of Europe.
