Alexey GERMAN Jr. (1976, Russia) grew up in St. Petersburg. He studied at the VGIK film school in Moscow from 1996 to 2001. Afterwards he worked for the Lenfilm Studios. He directed three shorts that gained him national as well as international acclaim. With Paper Soldier, his third feature, he won the Silver Lion Award at the festival in Venice in 2008.

Alexey German Jr.

Academy film by German Jr. (Last Train, Paper Soldier). Two losers are suddenly stuck: one finds the perfect woman, the other can finally make a long desired journey.

IFFR 2009

Fools, 

Signals: First Things First

Fools

Alexej German jr.

This powerful Cinemascope film début in black &amp; white by the son of the great Russian master is the human story of the life and death of ordinary people (Russians and Germans) who are dragged along in the horrors of the Eastern front in World War Two.

IFFR 2004

Last Train, The

main programme features

The Last Train

Set in the early 1960s and featuring an emotionally vulnerable doctor working with the first team of Soviet cosmonauts, this is a daring artistic statement from the heir to the German dynasty, Alexey Jr. The director goes 'in search of lost time' and strips the gloss off the Gagarin era.

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Alexey German Jr.

Filmography

Alexey German Jr. at IFFR

The Last Train

Fools

Paper Soldier