Valeria Gai Germanika

Valeria Gai Germanika

Valeria Gai Germanika ( Russian Валерия Гай Александровна Германика ; born March 1, 1984 in Moscow ) is a Russian director .

Life

Germanika grew up in Strogino, a prefabricated suburb of Moscow. Your first films are set in this suburb.

After the birth she was first called Valeria Igorewna Dudinskaja (Russian Валерия Игоревна Дудинская ). With the first name Valeria she was named after the wife of Lucius Cornelius Sulla and got the father's name and family name of her father, the journalist Igor Dubinsky. At the age of 16 Valeria had her name changed in her identity card and has since been called Valeria Gai (first name; Gai is the Russian form of the Roman first name Gaius ) Germanika (last name) and with the patronymic Alexandrovna after her stepfather.

After graduating from school, Germanika began an apprenticeship as a cynologist , which she soon dropped out to study film. She moved away from Strogino and now lives in a condominium in central Moscow. Their daughter, born in 2008, is called Oktavia.

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Germanika started making films when she was eighteen. As a student at the Internews film and television college in Moscow , she made several documentaries about young people.

Just like their feature film debut, these are considered unusually close to the life of young people. Germanika's films are also characterized by a very moving handheld camera and unconventional camera angles.

Her feature film debut Everybody Dies But Me ( All die, only I stay , Russian: Все умрут, а я останусь ) premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, where the film received an honorable mention . The film received the CineVision Award at the Munich Film Festival in 2008.

After her success in Cannes, the first Russian television channel offered her to direct a television series. The series Schkola (in German: The School) started in January 2010 and caused a sensation in Russia because it represented an extremely negative attitude among students towards their teachers and the social status quo . The series, meanwhile, sparked a discussion about the state of Russian schools.

Filmography

• Sisters (2005)
• The Girls (2005)
• The Boys (2007)
• The Birthday of the Infanta (2007)
• Everybody Dies But Me (2008)
• The School (TV series, 2010)

Web links

• Valeria Gai Germanica in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The homepage of the television series Die Schule (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Short CV (Russian)
2. ↑ Whirling around "Schkola" // ORF 1 "  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ A breath of fresh air in the cinema // cineuma.eu ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Munich Film Festival CineVision
5. ↑ One is bothered by the content // Deutschlandradio Kultur
6. ↑ "This is an attack on our youth" // FAZ.net