Aleksei Alekseievich German | |
|---|---|
 Aleksei German, 2024 | |
| Born | 4 September 1976 |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Occupation | film director |
Aleksei Alekseivich German (Russian: Алексей Алексеевич Герман, born 4 September 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. [1]
Aleksei German is a son of Russian film director Aleksei Yuryevich German (hence in Russia he is often called "Aleksei German Junior") and screenwriter Svetlana Igorevna Karmalita, and a grandson of writer Yuri German. He finished Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 2001 and worked on Lenfilm film studio.
His feature film debut The Last Train (2003) won the Best Picture and International Film Critics' Awards at Thessaloniki.[2]
For his film Paper Soldier (2008), German received the Silver Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival.[3]
His sixth film, Under Electric Clouds (2015), was screened in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.[4][5] and earned him the award for Achievement in Directing at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards in 2015.[6]
German married production and costume designer Elena Okopnaya in 2011.[7]
