Petersburg said goodbye to Alexei German Sr.

More than 500 people came to the civilian panach of Alexei German Sr., which took place in the first pavilion of Lenfilm in St. Petersburg, RIA Novosti reports.

Alexey German Sr. died at 75 years of life on the night of February 21 at the Military Medical Academy after a long illness.

For two hours, at the site of the film studio, close relatives, friends, politicians, actors, directors, screenwriters and writers spoke of his great role in the lives of Petersburgers and other residents of Russia. During the Panichids, the appeal of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the farewell words of the directors of famous festivals, including the Cannes festival, were read out. Also, the Panicid was attended by the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky, who promised the widow of director Svetlana Karmalit, that everything possible would be done so that the memory of German Sr. was not forgotten.

“We are used to noding for times. But for a real artist, any time is his time. And thank God that we live in the days of Herman,” said the writer and film scorestone Mikhail Kuraev. It was the acquired creative freedom, according to the artist Oleg Basilashvili, who moved this great man to create films that became the events of world cinema.

"I thank Fate and Alexei Herman for those 14 years that have become a trip to another planet for me," said actor Leonid Yarmolnik, who played the main role in the last, almost finished film of the master "It is difficult to be a god." This film is a lover-about our era, which Alexei German, day after day, lived as an indifferent creator and citizen, ITAR-TASS notes.

The director of the studio director Eduard Pichugin, who considers it a matter of honor to return the Lenfilm brand, spoke about the great contribution of the director to the revival of Lenfilm. With the words of farewell, the speaker of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly Vyacheslav Makarov, Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Olga Kazan, a family of the family Alexei Kudrin, directors Evgeny Tatarsky, Andrei Smirnov, Yuri Norshtein performed.

Farewell to the director took place to the music from the movie "It is difficult to be a god." Spectators will soon see this tape.

The funeral service of the deceased took place in the church of the Savior of a miraculous image on the stable area. Alexey German was buried in the theological cemetery, next to the grave of his father - writer Yuri German.

The Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter, People's Artist of the Russian Federation Alexei Yuryevich German was born on July 20, 1938 in Leningrad in the family of writer Yuri German and Tatyana Rittenberg. In 1960 he graduated from the director's faculty of the Leningrad Theater Institute named after Ostrovsky, where he studied at the workshop of the famous director Grigory Kozintsev.

The film "Operation" Happy New Year! "Was the first work of Herman. The picture was shot in 1971, but did not pass censorship, lay on the shelf for 15 years and was released only in 1986 under the name" Road Check ".

His first picture, reaching the audience, was the tape "Twenty days without war." The film was shot in 1976. The great success of Herman was the tape "My Friend Ivan Lapshin" (1984), awarded many cinematic awards. For the films "Checking on the Roads", "Twenty Days without the War" and "My Friend Ivan Lapshin" Alexei German was awarded the critics of the International Film Festival in Rotterdam in 1987. His next work, the film "Khrustalev, car!" (1998) I received three national awards of Russian film critics - for the film, directing and the work of artists - and became the laureate of the Kinematographic Prize "Nick" (2000) in six nominations.