Aleksei Yuryevich German
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Aleksei Yuryevich GermanStalinist Russia.
Biography
German was born in
Sedmoy Sputnik, co-directed with Grigori Aronov
in 1967.
Over the course of his career, many of his projects met with production difficulties or official opposition; in 50 years, he managed to complete just six feature films, his final film being the science fiction film Hard to Be a God, completed by his son, Alexei German after his death,[5] debuted at the Rome Film Festival in 2013.
Gorbachev era.
In 1987, at the Rotterdam International Film Festival (Netherlands), Alexei German, as a director, received a KNF Award for his three films, Trial on the Road, Twenty Days Without War, and My Friend Ivan Lapshin.
German was married to the screenwriter Svetlana Karmalita;[6] they had a son, Aleksei Alekseivich German, who is also a film director.[7] German died of heart failure 21 February 2013.[8]
Style
Most of German's films are set during the
black and white or very muted color, have a distinctive "murky" look and are often described as looking "aged." He was known for his obstinacy as a director, for featuring protagonists who could be categorized neither as heroes nor antiheroes, and for casting actors against type.[9]
Filmography
- 1967 – The Seventh Companion
- 1971 – Trial on the Road
- 1976 – Twenty Days Without War
- 1984 – My Friend Ivan Lapshin
- 1998 – Khrustalyov, My Car!
- 2013 – Hard to Be a God (original title History of the Arkanar Massacre)
References
- ^ His surname is sometimes transliterated Guerman or Gherman to indicate that the Latin script ⟨g⟩ is "hard".
- ^ "Legendary Soviet Filmmaker Dies at 74". The Moscow Times. 21 February 2013. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
- ISBN 978-0190451226.
- ^ Bergan, Ronald (26 February 2013). "Aleksei German obituary". The Guardian (UK). Retrieved 18 March 2013.
- ^ Bradshaw, Peter (6 August 2015). "Hard to Be a God review – mud, blood and holy hell". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
- ISBN 9781442268425.
- ^ Bergan, Ronald (26 February 2013). "Aleksei German obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
- ^ Kishkovsky, Sophia (23 February 2013). "Aleksei German, Director of Anti-Soviet Movies, Dies at 74". The New York Times. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
- Dolin, Anton (March/April 2012) No Surrender. filmcomment.com
External links
- Aleksei Yuryevich German at IMDb
- War and Remembrance: The Films of Aleksei Guerman
- The Strange Case of Russian Maverick Aleksei German, by Anton Dolin
- "Time Unfrozen: The Films of Aleksei German," New Left Review 7, Jan.-Feb. 2001. by Tony Wood
- Exorcism: Aleksei German Among the Long Shadows, by J. Hoberman
- Shooting Down Pictures article Archived 30 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine
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