Born in 1938. Having worked with Lenfilm, the oldest studio in the Soviet Union, he made his first film with Grigori Aronov, The Seventh Companion(1968) and finished Trial on the Road(1971), inspired by a novel written by his father. The film, set during World War II, was immediately forbidden with the excuse that it distorted historical facts: it was not released until 1985.With the advent of the 1990s and the new political situation, German worked on Khrustalyov, My Car!(1998) and it is released after being presented in competition at the Cannes.In 2000, he began to work on Hard to be a God which completed by Svetlana Karmalita and by their son Aleksey German Jr. after he passed away in 2013.