Aleksei Alekseivich German

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Nationality Russia Spouse Yelena Okopnaya Role Film director		Name Aleksei German Occupation film director Aunts Marina Kovarskaya

Born September 4, 1976 (age 48) ( 1976-09-04 ) Moscow Parents Svetlana Karmalita, Aleksei German Grandparents Yuri German, Tatyana Rittenberg Movies Under Electric Clouds, Paper Soldier, Garpastum, The Last Train Similar People Aleksei German, Merab Ninidze, Svetlana Karmalita, Chulpan Khamatova, Louis Franck

Aleksei Alekseivich German (Russian: Алексей Алексеевич Герман, born September 4, 1976) is a Russian film director. His last name is pronounced with a hard "g" and in English is sometimes spelled Guerman or Gherman to avoid confusion.

Biography

Aleksei German is a son of famous Soviet and Russia film editor Aleksei Yuryevich German (hence in Russia he is often called "Aleksei German-junior") and a screenwriter Svetlana Igorevna Karmalita; he is a grandson of a writer Yuri German. He finished Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 2001 and worked on "Lenfilm" film studio. His latest film, Under Electric Clouds, was screened in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.

Filmography

The Last Train / Poslednij Poezd (2003) - Nika Award in nomination "Discovery of the Year"

Garpastum (2005) - Nika Award in nomination "Best Director", nominated for Golden Lion of the 62nd Venice International Film Festival

Paper Soldier / Bumazhnyj Soldat (2008) - Nika Award in nomination "Best Director", Silver Lion of the 65th Venice International Film Festival in nomination "Best Director" and "Golden Osella" for Best Cinematography

Short circuit / Korotkoe zamykanie, part "Kim" (2009)

From the Tokyo / Iz Tokyo (2011, short film)

Under Electric Clouds / Pod electricheskimi oblakami (2015)

References

Aleksei Alekseivich German Wikipedia

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