Aleksei German Jr. Movies

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of...

Young female fighter pilots arrive to the frontline. They have different stories and different fates. They are getting older, falling in love and...

Dovlatov charts six days in the life of a brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of 70s Soviet Russia. Sergei Dovlatov fought...

David, a university professor, takes to social media to criticize his city’s administration. But instead of the mayor’s dodgy dealings...

The film is about the long-term relationship between the director and the character of her first film, the French indie artist, musician and director...

Five short love stories, which become a statement of the directors about love. A shoemaker, a reporter, a pavement hooker-in, a psychiatric patient...

The film was inspired by one of the most important documentaries shot by Krzysztof Kieślowski, Talking Heads (1980). The director asked his...

In 1961, a Soviet medical officer is conflicted about his position overseeing the health of future cosmonauts.

A fat middle-aged man in German officer's uniform gets off a train somewhere in Russia in winter. He is a doctor who has just been called up we learn...

An elderly literature teacher lives a solitary life in his apartment. He reads books, listens to the news about culture. Every day he calls a friend...

Garpastum is a Latin word meaning ball game. Set in 1914 in St. Petersburg, the brothers Andrey and Nikolai are passionate about the matches they...

Russia 2017. The world could be on the verge of a great war. People are anxious that things could fall apart. Evolving around an unfinished building,...

This film is a very short story about a former rescue worker returning from Tokyo – a man who is quite successful in his everyday life, and...

A young, unknown artist, Ivan, goes from Moscow to St. Petersburg to audition for a new big film directed by Alexei German Jr. But suddenly, one by...

When autumn came, and the rains became more frequent, two friends, Sasha and Yura, had their dreams fulfilled in one day. Not exactly the way they...

A documentary grotesque in which even the walls speak. Famous directors of St. Petersburg cinema recall their lives and work, and images of old films...

The year is 1915; World War I is underway. In Petrograd, the young Futurist poet Vladimir Mayakovsky meets a married couple, Lilya and Osip Brik. He...

A film dedicated to the work of doctors in extreme conditions, both revealing the everyday life of medical workers and emphasizing their dedication...

A story about the creative biography of Alexei German Sr. through the prism of his latest film - It's Hard to Be a God. Many shots from the shooting...