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Aleksey German

Name in Native Language: "Алексей Юрьевич Герман" (Russian/RU)
Film Director / Actor / Screenwriter | * 07/20/1938 († 74, 02/21/2013) | Leningrad (Soviet Union)
Aleksei Yuryevich German (Russian: Алексей Юрьевич Герман, IPA: [ɐlʲɪkˈsʲej ˈjʉrʲjɪvʲɪdʑ ˈɡʲermən]; 20 July 1938 – 21 February 2013) was a Russian film director and screenwriter. In a career spanning five decades of filmmaking, German completed six feature films, noted for his stark pessimism, long, serpentine sequence shots, black and white cinematography, overbearing sound design and acute observations of Stalinist Russia. ()

Aleksei Yuryevich German (July 20, 1938–February 21, 2013) was a Soviet and Russian director, writer, actor, and producer.

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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | War | Science Fiction

Known for these Movies & Shows

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. And he does it well. ...

My Friend Ivan Lapshin

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1984 | 3.6/5 | 1h 35min
Drama
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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. Their task is a difficult one ...

Hard to Be a God

FSK: 16+ years

2013 | 3.4/5 | 2h 57min
Drama, Science Fiction
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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". ...

Khrustalyov, My Car!

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1999 | 3.2/5 | 2h 27min
Comedy, Drama
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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 ada ...

Twenty Days Without War

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1976 | 3.6/5 | 1h 41min
War, Drama
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Awards & Nominations for Aleksey German

USSR State Prize Order of Honour (Russia) People's Artist of Russia Order "for Merit To The Fatherland", 4th Class Vasilyev Brothers State Prize of the RSFSR Honored Art Worker of The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic "his Own Way" Award 2x Nika Award Golden Ram Triumph Tsarskoselskaya Art Award
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Movies with Aleksey German as Actor(7)

1996 The Arrival of a Train
as doctor1995 Gisele's Mania
as Кламм1994 The Castle
as Lui-même1990 Alexeï Guerman, cinéaste bien interdit
1989 Канувшее время
1982 Личная жизнь директора
1981 Сергей Иванович уходит на пенсию

TV Shows/Series with Aleksey German as Actor(1)

as Narrator1993 To Remember

Movies with Aleksey German as Crew(15)

Directing/Director2013 Hard to Be a God
Writing/Screenplay2013 Hard to Be a God
Directing/Director1999 Khrustalyov, My Car!
Writing/Writer1999 Khrustalyov, My Car!
Writing/Writer1991 The Fall of Otrar
Writing/Writer1987 A Tale of The Brave Khochbar
Writing/Writer1987 Moy Boevoy Rashchyot
Writing/Writer1986 Dead Man's Letters
Directing/Director1986 Trial on the Road
Directing/Director1984 My Friend Ivan Lapshin
Writing/Writer1984 My Friend Ivan Lapshin
Writing/Writer1983 Torpedo Bombers
Writing/Screenplay1977 Sit Next to Me, Mishka!
Directing/Director1976 Twenty Days Without War
Directing/Director1967 The Seventh Companion

Full Name: Alexey Herman
Citizenships: Soviet Union (former country), Russia
Born: Wednesday, 07/20 1938 (July) in Leningrad (Soviet Union)
Died: Thursday, 02/21 2013 (February) in Saint Petersburg (aged: 74)
Zodiac sign: Cancer (Chinese zodiac sign: Tiger)
Languages: Russian (RU)
Educated at: Russian State Institute of Performing Arts
Employer: Smolensk state drama theatre named after A. S. Griboedov, Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater, Lenfilm, Top Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors
Member of: Association of Filmmakers of the USSR
Spouses (current/former): Svetlana Karmalita
Father: Yuri German
Other names for Aleksey German (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Алексей Герман"
"Alexey German"
"Alexei German"
"Aleksei German"
"A. German"
"Aleksei Gherman"
"Alexei Gierman"
"Alekseï Guerman"
"Alexey Guerman"
"Alexeï Guerman"
"Aleksei Yuryevich German"
"Alexei Jurjewitsch German"
Aleksey German frequently works together with these people:
Svetlana Karmalita (7x, Crew)
Leonid Filatov (6x, Actor)
Aleksey Balabanov (5x, Crew)
Yuri German (4x, Crew)
Sergei Selyanov (4x, Crew)
Eduard Volodarskiy (3x, Crew)
Nina Ruslanova (3x, Actress)
Yuriy Kuznetsov (3x, Actor)
Aleksei Zharkov (3x, Actor)
Nikolai Astakhov (3x, Crew)
Aleksandr Khvan (3x, Crew)
Vladimir Ilyin (3x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:506160, Added: 10/05/2018, Last updated: 04/13/2024