Aleksei German: History Though a Keyhole is screening at GOMA’s Australian Cinémathèque!

With the exception of his final work, the Boschian sci-fi Hard to Be a God 2013, German’s films are all set within the post-Revolution pre-Khrushchev Russia of 1918-1953. This tumultuous milieu underpins his portraits of morally complex characters often teetering on the edge of calamity. Through these stories, German builds allegorical explorations of both his own past and the past of his compatriots.   //   German crafted a unique cinematic language that extends ...