Aleksei German

Biography

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.

Directed

1. Hard to Be a God (2014) — Director
2. My Friend Ivan Lapshin (1985) — Director
3. Trial on the Road (1986) — Director
4. Khrustalyov, My Car! (1999) — Director
5. Twenty Days Without War (1976) — Director
6. The Seventh Companion (1967) — Director

Also appeared in

1. The Castle (1994) — Кламм
2. To Remember (1993) — Narrator
3. The Arrival of a Train (1996)
4. Gisele's Mania (1995) — doctor
5. Trofim (1995) — руководитель кинопроекта «Вокзалы Санкт-Петербурга»
6. Sergei Eisenstein: Autobiography (1996) — (voice)
7. Sergey Ivanovich Retires (1981)
8. Private Life of the Director (1982)
9. The Time That Has Passed (1989)
10. Alexeï Guerman, cinéaste bien interdit (1990) — Lui-même
11. German. Lenfilm (2002)
12. Playback (2012)
13. Kira (2003) — Self
14. Germanology (2008) — Himself
15. Aleksei German (2019) — Himself
16. The Architect. The Story of Alexey German and His Films (2023) — self
17. Legends of Cinema (2016) — Self (archive footage)