sentences:  "Trial on the Road" (1971) is the film that made Alexei German famous.It was banned for fifteen years and was "on the shelves" of the Ministry of Culture of the Soviet Union until its release (1986) during the Gorbachev era.In 1987, at the Rotterdam International Film Festival (Netherlands), Alexei German, as a director, received a KNF Award for his three films, "Trial on the Road", "Twenty Days Without War", and "My Friend Ivan Lapshin".