Gennadiy Ostrovskiy

Directing

Gennadiy Ostrovskiy

Known for

Directing

Credits

26 titles

Known for

The Stringer poster
4.9

Vadik Chernyshov is an impoverished dreamer who spends his life drifting though Moscow with a video camera, hoping to shoot footage that will interest Western press agencies. He falls in love with the beautiful Helen, an English media executive, and subsequently they must contend with the barriers that their different backgrounds present.

The Stringer

1998

Ayka poster
6.9

A young Kyrgyz immigrant tries to eke out a living in Moscow after abandoning her newborn and fleeing the hospital.

Ayka

2018

My Step Brother Frankenstein poster
6.1

One day Pavel, a young man wounded in the war, suddenly shows up at the home of a Moscow scientist name Krymov and claims to be his illegitimate son. Krymov denies this, but out of compassion he helps arrange a necessary operation for Pavel. Then certain things begin happening which suggest to Krymov that he may have a psychologically unstable fellow on his hands.

My Step Brother Frankenstein

2004

Tzadik poster
7.3

In 1942, Red Army officer Nikolai Kiselyov receives orders to evacuate over 200 Jewish women, children, and elderly men facing brutality and death in Nazi-occupied Belarus. These exhausted, starving, terrified and bereaved people, deeply scarred by the horrors they have witnessed, must trek hundreds of kilometers along forest paths to regain hope of survival and faith in the future.

Tzadik

2023

Gagarin's Grandson poster
1.8

Fyodor a single artist suddenly discovers about his young brother who is living in a foster home.

Gagarin's Grandson

2007

Marathon poster
4.6

Tolik didn't succeed in life, sports career did not work, his wife left him. Unsuccessful, unloved, hopeless, he has lost faith in himself. All changes when he encounters a strange stranger Anna Ilinichna, who invites him to take part in an unusual marathon in faraway America.

Marathon

2013

Film credits

Behind the camera

The Stringer poster
4.9

Vadik Chernyshov is an impoverished dreamer who spends his life drifting though Moscow with a video camera, hoping to shoot footage that will interest Western press agencies. He falls in love with the beautiful Helen, an English media executive, and subsequently they must contend with the barriers that their different backgrounds present.

The Stringer

1998

Ayka poster
6.9

A young Kyrgyz immigrant tries to eke out a living in Moscow after abandoning her newborn and fleeing the hospital.

Ayka

2018

My Step Brother Frankenstein poster
6.1

One day Pavel, a young man wounded in the war, suddenly shows up at the home of a Moscow scientist name Krymov and claims to be his illegitimate son. Krymov denies this, but out of compassion he helps arrange a necessary operation for Pavel. Then certain things begin happening which suggest to Krymov that he may have a psychologically unstable fellow on his hands.

My Step Brother Frankenstein

2004

Tzadik poster
7.3

In 1942, Red Army officer Nikolai Kiselyov receives orders to evacuate over 200 Jewish women, children, and elderly men facing brutality and death in Nazi-occupied Belarus. These exhausted, starving, terrified and bereaved people, deeply scarred by the horrors they have witnessed, must trek hundreds of kilometers along forest paths to regain hope of survival and faith in the future.

Tzadik

2023

Gagarin's Grandson poster
1.8

Fyodor a single artist suddenly discovers about his young brother who is living in a foster home.

Gagarin's Grandson

2007

Marathon poster
4.6

Tolik didn't succeed in life, sports career did not work, his wife left him. Unsuccessful, unloved, hopeless, he has lost faith in himself. All changes when he encounters a strange stranger Anna Ilinichna, who invites him to take part in an unusual marathon in faraway America.

Marathon

2013

No artwork available
NR

Mark, a successful St. Petersburg restaurateur, lives in a whirlwind of bright events and social adventures: parties, tastings, noisy companies, beautiful girlfriends and funny friends with their infatuations, romances and infidelities. But one day Mark will have to make a choice: a world of fleeting desires and thrills, or a feeling that happens only once. And it stays forever.

NoOneLikeYou

No artwork available
NR

Mark, a successful St. Petersburg restaurateur, lives in a whirlwind of bright events and social adventures: parties, tastings, noisy companies, beautiful girlfriends and funny friends with their infatuations, romances and infidelities. But one day Mark will have to make a choice: a world of fleeting desires and thrills, or a feeling that happens only once. And it stays forever.

NoOneLikeYou

Tulpan poster
6.3

Asa, a young and cheerful dreamer, returns from his Russian naval service to his sister’s nomadic family on the desolate Hunger Steppe of central Asia, so that he can begin his own life as a shepherd. But before he can tend a flock of his own, Asa must first win the hand of the only eligible girl for miles—his mysterious neighbor, Tulpan.

Tulpan

2009

Russian Ragtime poster
4.4

In Soviet Union young Misha is dreaming to see USA, but it seems highly unlikely...

Russian Ragtime

1993

An Essay for Victory Day poster
6.2

The heroic crew of the fighter jet reunites a quarter of a century later. Fate has separated these comrades-in-arms, significantly altering their characters and worldviews. One became a radical communist, another became the chairman of the Veterans Fund, and the third lived in exile for many years. At first, the former comrades-in-arms find it difficult to understand each other, but when one of them gets into trouble, the others devise a plan to rescue him.

An Essay for Victory Day

1999

Soldiers Decameron poster
1.0

A bunch of funny and romantic stories from the life of a military base in Russia.

Soldiers Decameron

2005

The Lover poster
5.7

This is a remarkably subtle film–a character study that focuses on Mitya’s attempts to cope with each new startling phase of discovery. At first he mourns for his dead wife, but then he discovers that he didn’t really know her.

The Lover

2002

Without Men poster
3.0

Two women meet by happenstance traveling from Moscow to Perm. After their flight is delayed, Aleksandra and Zhenia spend a night in Moscow that turns out to be full of unforeseeable adventures.

Without Men

2011

In Motion poster
4.7

Modern Russian take on Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" focuses on a few days from one popular Moscow journalist's life and the essential attributes of his life: Sex, betrayal, love, friendship, murders, etc.

In Motion

2002

No artwork available
NR

Don't Be Afraid, I'm With You

Roots poster
4.9

Shameless slimeball Eduard "Edik" Letov - clad in an everpresent Hawaiian shirt - puts the sting on alien travelers hoping to connect with their roots, by having local phonies pose as the visitors' long-lost relatives. Complications abound when Letov attempts to pass off an entire village under the guise of a community wiped out during the Second World War. The arrival of a group of trouble-causing misfits, among them mobster Barukh - who wishes to bury his mother's remains, only to discover that someone keeps exhuming them - and the lech Simon - a Canadian with an insatiable fetish for his sexy translator - turn Letov's latest scheme into a veritable cat's cradle.

Roots

2005

Living With an Idiot poster
4.0

The main character is an intellectual from Russia, who sees it as his duty to bring an idiot from an mental institution to his house. He can pick someone out, after bribing the boss of the institution, with two bottles of vodka. He chooses Vova, at first sight a silly man, and takes him home. His wife is at first not very happy with this choice. Vova says and does nothing at all. Then he becomes an aggressive man, who terrorises the house and bashes everything to pieces. After she is raped by Vova, the wife gets sexually dependant on the Idiot. Vova isn't interested anymore, when she gets pregnant and doesn't keep the baby. The idiot goes now to the intellectual for his sexual needs. The wife can't take this anymore and forces her man to take a choice: Vova out, or she will go.

Living With an Idiot

1993

Captains poster
NR

This is the story of two lonely and somewhat similar humans, although one young and one old. First is a thief loser who breaks into the dark and, as he thinks, abandoned apartment on New Year's Eve. And the second one exactly at this time tries to hung himself because of his feelings of loneliness and uselessness.

Captains

2010

Captains poster
NR

This is the story of two lonely and somewhat similar humans, although one young and one old. First is a thief loser who breaks into the dark and, as he thinks, abandoned apartment on New Year's Eve. And the second one exactly at this time tries to hung himself because of his feelings of loneliness and uselessness.

Captains

2010

Dumpling Brothers poster
NR

Two brothers - a business man and a musician , have nothing in common and live two different lives. The death of their father brings them together. To distract their beloved mother from grief they convince her to make dumplings for them and their friends everyday. This innocent request leads to unforeseen consequences.

Dumpling Brothers

2013

Dumpling Brothers poster
NR

Two brothers - a business man and a musician , have nothing in common and live two different lives. The death of their father brings them together. To distract their beloved mother from grief they convince her to make dumplings for them and their friends everyday. This innocent request leads to unforeseen consequences.

Dumpling Brothers

2013

Mechanical Suite poster
4.8

Two colleagues go to fetch the body of their co-worker from a neighboring town where that man died unexpectedly. As this person has no kin, the director of the factory chooses to send Markerants and Mityagin to deal with the whole business. And here the adventures begin...

Mechanical Suite

2002

Fear Nothing, I’m With You poster
NR

The events take place in Leningrad in the mid-80s - a time of hope, promising changes and the flourishing of informal culture.

Fear Nothing, I’m With You

Shoes from America poster
9.0

Isaac Berg is the only Jew in a small town who miraculously survived during the german occupation. The old man is haunted by one idea - he decided to raise the gravestones with which the nazis paved the road and take them to where his loved ones were killed.

Shoes from America

2001