Hermann Jr.'s film "Air" won the top prize at the Golden Eagle Awards

The picture "Air" directed by Alexei German Jr. won in the category "Best Feature Film" of the award "Golden Eagle" for 2024, the XXIII solemn ceremony of awarding statuettes is held on January 31 at the film studio "Mosfilm".

The name of the winner was announced by People's Artist of the Russian Federation and director Sergei Bezrukov.

"Worthy director, worthy movie, worthy theme of the defenders of the Fatherland. "Eagle" in order to fly, needs "Air", - he noted.

Together with the picture of German Jr. in the final of the award also went to the films "One Hundred Years To Go" Alexander Andryushchenko, "Love of the Soviet Union" Nikita Vysotsky, Ilya Lebedev and Dmitry Iosifov, "Eternal Winter" Nikolai Larionov and "Look at Me!" by Vladimir Grammatikov.

The Golden Eagle Award was established by the National Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of the Russian Federation in 2002.

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Thepremiere of Alexei German Jr.'swar drama "Air" took place in Moscow on January 17. The events of the movie take place during the Great Patriotic War. The events of the winter of 1942 in Leningrad recreated with documentary accuracy, many techniques during filming applied for the first time.