As Director, As Writer
Hard to Be a God
2014
6.6
Aleksei German
Acting
Birth date
July 20, 1938
Birth place
Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
Death date
February 21, 2013
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.
Filmography
As Director, As Writer
Khrustalyov, My Car!
1999
6.0
As Actor
Sergei Eisenstein: Autobiography
1996
8.5
As Actor
Gisele's Mania
1995
2.3
As Writer
The Fall of Otrar
1991
6.6
As Writer
Dead Man's Letters
1986
6.8
As Director
Trial on the Road
1986
6.9
As Director, As Writer
My Friend Ivan Lapshin
1985
6.8
As Writer
Torpedo Bombers
1983
5.6
As Actor
Sergey Ivanovich Retires
1981
6.5
As Director
Twenty Days Without War
1976
6.7
As Director
The Seventh Companion
1967
5.9