Aleksei German Jr.
Director · b. 1976 · Moscow, RSFSR, USSR
Aleksei Alekseivich German Jr. (Алексей Алексеевич Герман, born 4 September 1976) is a Russian film director. He is the son of Russian film director Aleksei Yuryevich German and screenwriter Svetlana Igorevna Karmalita, and a grandson of writer Yuri German. He graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 2001 and went on to work at the Lenfilm film studio.
Movies2
- Movie1.0Documentary
The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his interlocutors seemingly simple questions, such as “Who are you?” and “What do you want?”.
Movie4.0DocumentaryThe film is about the long-term relationship between the director and the character of her first film, the French indie artist, musician and director Siegfried, known as Sig. The story is dedicated to the experience of growing up, emancipation and finding their own identity in life and in art. The film raises questions about the nature of the student-teacher relationship, which inevitably involves submission and conflict, and the nature of the director and hero relationship, which is based on love and a little manipulation.