2013. Director Alexei German died

A year ago, on February 21, 2013, at the age of 74, an outstanding Russian film director Alexei German, author of the films “Verification on the Roads”, “Twenty Days without War”, “My Friend Ivan Lapshin” and “Khrustalev, car”, died.

Herman did not live to the premiere of the picture “It is difficult to be a god”, which he considered his main work.

A few years before his death, Herman recalled: “In the“ check on the roads ”, a barge with Soviet prisoners of war swims under a mined bridge. They were depicted by prisoners (the main article is rape). “What are the faces! - repeated after dad Konstantin Simonov. - What are the faces! ” He especially liked the brigade commander in the center. In the life of the brigade commander, he was a bartender-waist from the European hotel. Simonov died and did not find out that this is a criminal. ”