Alexey German The voice of Alexei Herman often sounded on the waves of RS. The director spoke about the troubles of Lenfilm, howthe destruction of the film studio takes place (“Lenfilm” will cease to exist, becoming an attachment to a system that releases crazy paintings for television ”), about a split in the union of filmmakers, about an incomprehensible future of the St. Petersburg film phrase that he headed. The last time I saw Herman in the summer of 2011 at the opening of a film forum in the Mikhailovsky Theater. Provincial officials and businessmen who came to stare at Philip Kirkorova and Anna Netrebko, frowned by Herman’s speech that tension was growing in the country, social hatred is flared up and only art is able to relieve this tension. The president of the festival was awarded an absurd bouquet of flowers, as if prepared for a wedding, and spent from the stage. Herman has repeatedly said that he had no spectators left in Russia-everyone emigrated back in the 90s. There is a record of the director’s magnificent conversation with the perfect viewer - French Minister of Culture Frederick Mitterin, who understands his films and admire them. It is impossible to present such an interlocutor in Russia (imagine a conversation with Minister Medinsky). An excerpt from a conversation with Mitterin entered the recent documentary about Herman "It is difficult to be a god." The Swiss Antoine Kattin, who shot this picture, is trying to understand why Herman did not complete the film based on the Brothers Strugatsky Brothers. There are many reasons, and one of the main ones is the absence of a spectator, addressee. In an interview with RS, German recalled a man transformed by art: he traveled from the city to the city to watch Fellini's "road" for the hundredth time, traveling along the Soviet cinemas. Is there such a viewer today? "But if there is no art, then why is everything at all?" - asked Alexei German.
