#Aleksei German

[davidhudson]

Aleksei German, July 20, 1938 – February 21, 2013.

[aichihuahua]

"What did you do with her out there?" "Tugged a train engine across the river." The Edge (2010) dir. Aleksey Uchitel

[onenakedfarmer]

Currently Watching

HARD TO BE A GOD Aleksey German Russia, 2013

[dolorygloria]

Dovlatov (Довлатов), 2018 (dir. Aleksei German Jr.)

[absencesrepetees]

my friend ivan lapshin (aleksey german, 1984)

[movienized-com]

Vozdukh

Vozdukh (2023) #AlekseyGermanJr #VarvaraBarkhvits #SergeyBezrukov #PolinaDudkina #FilippDyachkov #MarusyaFurina Mehr auf:

Воздух / AirJahr: 2023 Genre: Drama / History / Kriegsfilm Regie: Aleksey German Jr. Hauptrollen: Varvara Barkhvits, Sergey Bezrukov, Polina Dudkina, Filipp Dyachkov, Marusya Furina, Anna Isaeva, Kristina Isaykina, Roman Kaun, Andrey Kondratyev, Natalia Korolskaya, Igor Korovin, Kristina Lapshina, Pyotr Logachev, Elena Lyadova, Yuliya Markova, Maria Melnikova … Filmbeschreibung: Junge…

[cinesludge]

Movie #21 of 2023: The Duelist

[acupofbritishearlgrey]

Andrei Mironov (07.03.1941 – 16.08.1987)

Tatyana Klevantseva: 'He was thought an ideal actor possessing power over all genres of cinema and theater. He was so tremendously popular during his lifetime, that even years after his death his birthdays remained a major event of Moscow's cultural life.' 'Many actors frankly confess that Andrei Mironov was simply the best. As time goes his legend continues to grow.'

A minor planet 3624 Mironov, discovered by Soviet astronomers Lyudmila Karachkina and Lyudmila Zhuravleva in 1982 is named after him.

movies in the post:

'The Twelve Chairs' (1976), dir. Mark Zakharov

'Heavenly Swallows' (1976), dir. Leonid Kvinikhidze

'The Straw Hat' (1974), dir. Leonid Kvinikhidze

'The Diamond Arm' (1969), dir. Leonid Gaidai

'My Friend Ivan Lapshin' (1985), dir. Aleksei German

'An Ordinary Miracle' (1978), dir. Mark Zakharov

'Property of the Republic' (1971), dir. Vladimir Bychkov

'Three Plus Two' (1963), dir. Genrikh Oganesyan

'The Story of Voyages' (1983), dir. by Alexander Mitta 

'Three Men in a Boat' (1979), dir. Naum Birman 

[cinema-enigmatic]

UNDER ELECTRIC CLOUDS (Aleksey German Jr., 2015)

[elektrischemaidchen]

Lisztober #9: Blind Grief

“Hey, good news, Drosselmeyer has made an 11 minute long weird ballad about Liszt.”

“Oh, COME ON!”

@franzliszt-official : We have TWO songs for you today.

One, from a noble spirit with a sense of beauty, the other is a roast, written by a Maiden without a heart, frivolous and wicked. There's a nice German expression, decribing the latter: What does it matter to the proud oak tree if the bristling cattle rub against it? ;)  I laughed my ass off anyway. For real. Chapeau.

Here we go: A Liszt-(Aleksey Konstantinovich, not Leo) Tolstoy-Ballad! (No translation, this time. Really, that’s too difficult for me and would destroy the beautiful spirit of it. I didn’t find an English translation either, but here’s a link to the whole poem, maybe you will be able to translate the site via Google)

See, even tumblr itself hates it:

If there's one unwritten rule in the Maidchen Fight Club, it's: no song without a twist or a joke. I've already broken this credo 4 times this week alone, mea culpa, I accept my punishment ;)

Enjoy this lovely pasquil, a nasty tribute to our single „Zeitmaschine“:

(So baby, take a time machine now and fly away for a month / You cheeky little bee Stay in the past / until Franz finally crowns you with a laurel wreath She bangs Franz Liszt, Oh yes Oh yes But he doesn’t  hear her plea She bangs Franz Liszt, oh yes We know You have studied/ now give it a rest otherwise our listeners will be all gone in a flash We have to save our honor now And jet to the next destination... Which is not Franz Liszt, oh no oh no Not even as a young gentleman Nor from eighteen-thirty or how old he would have gotten

Franz looks at her and says Praise to my listeners! Leave me here with thanks and we'll leave very quickly She bangs Franz Liszt! And I also greet those who have not heard my song. May only salvation befall them! Long may the prince reign happy and honored! May the people be granted a carefree life And peace to the noble boyars!” [I don't even know what boyars are, Bro])

And now for my defense of the “most boring piece of Maidchen history ever written”, with the “ROFL speech filter” that you “hoped someone would get to the point at minute 5 and would just take pity on the guy and slap him, but then the bullshit went on for another 6 minutes” and whose “last verse is so ironically abt that you could have put it at the very beginning”:

1 The text is not mine, it's Count Tolstoy's. Liszt himself set it to music autobiographically in 1875. And hardly anyone knows it. A pity. This time the song is not based on his notes. More on that below. You can skip it ;)

2 There is no poem that could appeal more to musicians. Because the blind singer is also you, my friend. At least sometimes. Not even our friends and fellow musicians hear this, so why should boyars?

3 I find the poem heartbreaking-beautiful and so sad that I actually shed a tear. I'm a sentimental bitch. Go ahead and laugh!

4 Any shortening would have ruined the story. Especially if it had been cut down to “two verses”. Philistines.

5 The filter is really cringeworthy. Sorry. The time pressure, the time pressure.

6 As for the boyars: Google is your friend, „Bro“

Now to Liszt himself:

I originally wanted to write something about Daniel and Blandine. But that didn't really seem appropriate.

When Franz set “The Blind Singer” by Count Tolstoy to music, he probably didn't know that his eye condition would get worse and worse six years later. Oh, the irony. :( But the text must have spoken to him differently: It also reflects his entire musical life with such bitter sweetness that I was truly awestruck. He, the blind singer, originally called to entertain the nobles at dinner; he, who makes the most beautiful unearthly sounds, doesn't realize that no one is listening to him. And just carries on. Even when he finally realizes that nobody is around anymore, This.

It's a bit like in this place, you see ;)

[davidhudson]

Aleksei German, July 20, 1938 – February 21, 2013.

Directing Yuri Tsurilo in Hard to Be a God (2013).

[shiningwizard]

To Kill a Dragon (Mark Zakharov, 1988)

Parable sci-fi somewhere between Terry Gilliam and Aleksei German. A parable of the cycles of Soviet power and different population strata’s deference to it, but as much a parable of any n+1-headed dragon that generates maddening, corrupt, brutal, unserving system after system. Kill a dragon to set space for another. I feel the world wants there to be more movies like this. Feasts for the eyes and imagination, dark, pessimistic, nightmarish science fiction worlds a step from our own, we’ll-made, wholly immersive. Here’s a good one.

[ashleyspage]

Alyona German photgraphed by Aleksey Trifonov

[sometimesigif]

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[absencesrepetees]

best films of 2023

new releases

may december (todd haynes)

pacifiction (albert serra)

showing up (kelly reichardt)

master gardener (paul schrader)

trenque lauquen (laura citarella)

knock at the cabin (m. night shyalaman)

afterwater (dane komljen)

music (angela schanelec)

jawan (atlee)

in our day (hong sang-soo)

discoveries

o'er the land + the illinois parable (deborah stratman, 2009/2016)

the grapes of wrath + my darling clementine + forte apache + wagon master (john ford, 1940-1950)

history lessons + from the clouds to the resistance + the return of prodigal son + these encounters of theirs (jean-marie straub + danièle huillet, 1972/1979/2003-2006)

colossal youth + horse money (pedro costa, 2006-2014)

gang of four + up down fragile (jacques rivette, 1989-1995)

pine flat + PODWORKA (sharon lockhart, 2006-2009)

the sunchaser (michael cimino, 1996)

way of gaucho (jaqcues tourneur, 1952)

city of hope + lone star (john sayles, 1991/1996)

detours (katya selenkina, 2021)

at sea + three landscapes (paul b. hutton, 2007-2013)

public housing (frederick wiseman, 1997)

11x14 + el valley centro + los + sogobi (james benning, 1977/1999-2002)

here and elsewhere (jean-luc godard, 1976)

walking and talking (nicole holofcener, 1996)

my friend ivan lapshin (aleksey german, 1984)

angel dust (gakuryu ishii, 1994)

acto da primavera (manoel de oliveira, 1963)

love me tonight (rouben mamoulian, 1932)

wild side (donald cammell, 1996)

trois ponts sur la rivière + saltimbank (jean-claude biette, 1999-2003)

public enemies (michael mann, 2009)

blue diary + the joy of life (jenni olson, 1997/2005)

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