Aleksey German

Director and screenwriter. He studied with Grigori Kozintsev up until 1960, he later started working in a theater before joining the Lenfilm studio an director asistant. He made his directing debut with Sedmoy Sputnik, co-directed with Grigory Aronov in 1967. Throughout his career, several of his projects faced production or releasing problems due to official objection. In fifty years, he only managed to complete six movies, his final one being Hard to be a God which was premiered at the Rome Festival in 2013. Trial on the Road (1971) was his breaktrough film. It was banned from the shelves of the Culture Ministry for fifteen years up until its release date in 1986 during the Gorbachov era. In 1987, at the Rotterdam Film Festival, German, as a director, received the KNF prize for three of his movies: Trial on the Road, Twenty Days Without War and My Friend Ivan Lapshin.

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