/lit/ - Literature

>>12041512
I guess you have limited the search to a single subforum, as Rutracker has always had the DVDs. Search for "aлeкceй гepмaн 1971 | 1976 | 1984 | 1998 | 2013" from the main page. Single DVD torrents (exclude the lower quality 4 DVD collection from 2005) are the best option available, as every film before his last only had an SD transfer. Judging from less than substantial financial situation of Lenfilm, German's home studio, in all post-Soviet decades, we won't see them in better digital form until some western publisher pays for a new transfer.

It would be easy to differentiate between his Soviet films, based on his father's works, and works of his father's generation, and two modern ones in which creative duet of Alexey German and Svetlana Karmalita was not limited by anything (except lack of funding, lack of production capacities, lack of actors who act non-professionally enough, etc., etc.), by treating the former as “the good fruits of Soviet Cinema”, and the latter as “art-house experiments”. In fact, public usually does just that. However, what German did was always a vibrant recreation of certain time, or, more properly, a person's recollection of that time, something more true than even a documentary.