Aleksey German

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Trial on the Road
7.9

Trial on the Road

Apr. 01, 1971

Trial on the Road

A Russian POW joins the partisan guerrillas and proves his loyalty fighting the Nazis. Filmed in 1971, but “shelved” until 1986. ...
My Friend Ivan Lapshin
7.7

My Friend Ivan Lapshin

Jan. 01, 1985

My Friend Ivan Lapshin

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin’s Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to ...
Twenty Days Without War
7.8

Twenty Days Without War

May. 01, 1977

Twenty Days Without War

War correspondent Lopatin takes a 20-day-leave from his hard work at the front in 1942. He travels to faraway Tashkent to meet the family of the ...
The Seventh Companion
7.5

The Seventh Companion

Apr. 14, 1968

The Seventh Companion

German apparently disavowed this, his first film, because of his co-director Grigori Aranov’s more classical approach (and his kowtowing to ...
Khrustalyov, My Car!
7.5

Khrustalyov, My Car!

May. 20, 1998

Khrustalyov, My Car!

Military doctor General Klenski is arrested in Stalin’s Russia in 1953 during an anti-Semitic political campaign accused of being a ...
Hard to Be a God
6.7

Hard to Be a God

Feb. 27, 2013

Hard to Be a God

A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find ...