Aleksei Alekseivich German

Aleksei Alekseivich German
Aleksei German, 2015
Born	(1976-09-04) September 4, 1976 (age 40) Moscow
Nationality	Russia
Occupation	film director

Aleksei Alekseivich German (Russian: Алексей Алексеевич Герман, born September 4, 1976) is a Russian film director. His last name is pronounced with a hard "g" and in English is sometimes spelled Guerman or Gherman to avoid confusion.

Aleksei German is a son of famous Soviet and Russia film editor Aleksei Yuryevich German (hence in Russia he is often called "Aleksei German-junior") and a screenwriter Svetlana Igorevna Karmalita; he is a grandson of a writer Yuri German. He finished Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography in 2001 and worked on "Lenfilm" film studio. His latest film, Under Electric Clouds, was screened in the main competition section of the 65th Berlin International Film Festival.