# UNDER ELECTRIC CLOUDS ( 2015) By Alexey German Jr \[excerpt\] HD

Berlin 2015: “Under Electric Clouds (2015)” Under Electric Clouds wins Berlinale award: an interview with director Alexei German Jr 16 February 2015 “\[A global war\] is happening and it will continue to happen. But for me, cinema is not a newspaper. It is not a mouthpiece of perestroika. This is not a concert on Police Day. For me, this is an attempt to tell you about some important things.” Russian film Under Electric Clouds won the award for cinematography and art direction at the Berlinale film festival. It is the sixth film by director Alexei German Jr , the son of eminent filmmaker Alexei German S r , who emerged during the perestroika period of the 1980s and became a defining figure of late Soviet and new Russian cinema. German Jr's eight-part film, which centres around an unfinished skyscraper, features an eccentric collection of protagonists, including the skyscraper’s architect, a poor intellectual and a Kyrgyz drifter. Together they explore a motif familiar to German Jr film buffs: the tension between freedom and its absence which lies at the centre of life among Russia’s intelligentsia. Alexei German Jr Set in 2017, on the hundredth anniversary of the Russian Revolution, Under Electric Clouds sees German Jr eschew the mould of Soviet filmmaking to focus on the existential crises of Russia’s urbanites. In an interview with The Calvert Journal, German Jr said: “We decided to start breaking the trend, which dictates that the successful Russian arthouse film should…

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