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Best Alexey German's films are screened in Berlin

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Best Alexey German's films are screened in Berlin


21.02.2019

Photo: Hard to Be a God screenshot, 2013

Russian House of Science and Culture in Berlin organized film screening of of Soviet and Russian director and screenwriter Aleksei German. Starting from February, 20 best features of the famous filmmaker to be shown. Among them the ultimate one named Hard to Be a God with German subtitles to be presented, Gosfilmofond website informs.

The Seventh Companion, Trial on the Road, Twenty Days Without War, My Friend Ivan Lapshin, Krustalev, My Car! Are on the program. Documentaries dedicated to Aleksei German's contribution to the world cinema are going to be shown as well. The master received many prestigious awards despite the fact that German was always among filmmakers victimised by the Soviet government. His Trial on the Road received the government award 20 years after it was made, in 1988. 

The world premier of the last masterpiece Hard to Be a God took place 1.5 years after the director's death. The shootings of this movie lasted almost 15 years and became some kind of a school for many Russian cinematographers. 

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