Herman: Interview. Essay. Script

"Check on the roads", "twenty days without war", "my friend Ivan Lapshin", "Khrustalev, Machine!" - These films, mysterious and powerful, add up to the phenomenon of Alexey German. His cinema is one of the most significant and least studied phenomena in the global art of the last half a century. Of the many hours of conversations with the director Anton Dolin learned if not all, then the most important thing about the origin of the master, his parents, military childhood, thawing, and weary in the labyrinths of Soviet cinematography. He found out how a new movie language was born, dealt with those who are actually laptic and Khrustalev and what to expect from the fifth full-length picture of Herman, work on which is more than ten years. The heroes of this book are not only Herman himself, but also many others: Konstantin Simonov and Philip Ermash, Rolan Bykov and Andrei Mironov, Georgy Tovstonogov and Yevgeny Schwartz. Between the fact and the bike, myth and history, cinema and literature, these stories are about memory, time and work, which is imperceptibly turning into art. The book also included an essay of Anton Valley - a kind of guide to the films of Herman. The appendix first publishes the Scenario of Alexey German and Svetlana Karmalites, written by the prose of Reddiard Kipling