
Directing
Vladimir Dostal
Born
1942-04-15 (84)
Place of birth
Ashkhabad, Turkmen SSR, USSR [now Ashgabat, Turkmenistan]
Known for
Directing
Credits
17 titles
Known for
5.2In Russia, there has long been a society of billiards, whose members are scattered throughout the country. Many of them have long become millionaires. And they should thank the old school teachers for this. Most of these old people live starving and lonely. In order to somehow brighten up their old age, the new generation of billiards decided to chip in and give their teachers a big mansion, where there will be decent food, good medical care and fresh air. No one refused his share of the contribution, except for an authority by the name of Savitsky. Soon, he completely changes his mind and organizes an ambush on the road, takes away not only his own money, but also his total money. The barely surviving couriers report this to all members of the community. The group comes up with a decent punishment by sending him a professional pool player nicknamed Classic. The bandit will have to fight with a virtuoso who prefers to play for large sums in order to save money.
Classic
1998
6.7A Russian criminal steals a giant diamond from the Mafia, hides it, and suddenly runs into his unknown brothers; unexpected, absurd events with participation of the mob, doctors, musicians, Americans, militia, and gypsies ensue.
What a Mess!
1995
5.0Moscow Year New Year's Eve 1987. In the 25th hospital on duty are the obstetrician and the nurse. They make the rounds, after which sit down to celebrate the New Year. Suddenly, the hospital ambulance arrives with a pregnant woman - daughter of the general, who had an accident and she started the premature birth. Despite the exhortations of doctors that gestational age is a tragic turn for the child, a fierce general, threatening with a pistol, forcing him to take delivery. A child is born dead, and intimidated doctor decides to replace it for a living. On the same day another woman gave birth to twin-girls, one of which is changed. Ironically, the two girls called Masha.
The President and his Granddaughter
2000
5.6Old skipper travels with his old ship called "Fortune" on the Russian river.
Fortune
2000
4.8Four old friends are experiencing various troubles adapting to the new times in modern Russia.
Old Hags
2000
7.5Captain 2nd Rank Alexey Barsuk, facing downsizing, returns to his hometown, takes over his father's position as a forester in the Chernobyl zone, and begins a battle against the local mafia.
Ranger from the Nuclear Zone
1999
Behind the camera
5.2In Russia, there has long been a society of billiards, whose members are scattered throughout the country. Many of them have long become millionaires. And they should thank the old school teachers for this. Most of these old people live starving and lonely. In order to somehow brighten up their old age, the new generation of billiards decided to chip in and give their teachers a big mansion, where there will be decent food, good medical care and fresh air. No one refused his share of the contribution, except for an authority by the name of Savitsky. Soon, he completely changes his mind and organizes an ambush on the road, takes away not only his own money, but also his total money. The barely surviving couriers report this to all members of the community. The group comes up with a decent punishment by sending him a professional pool player nicknamed Classic. The bandit will have to fight with a virtuoso who prefers to play for large sums in order to save money.
Classic
1998
6.7A Russian criminal steals a giant diamond from the Mafia, hides it, and suddenly runs into his unknown brothers; unexpected, absurd events with participation of the mob, doctors, musicians, Americans, militia, and gypsies ensue.
What a Mess!
1995
5.0Moscow Year New Year's Eve 1987. In the 25th hospital on duty are the obstetrician and the nurse. They make the rounds, after which sit down to celebrate the New Year. Suddenly, the hospital ambulance arrives with a pregnant woman - daughter of the general, who had an accident and she started the premature birth. Despite the exhortations of doctors that gestational age is a tragic turn for the child, a fierce general, threatening with a pistol, forcing him to take delivery. A child is born dead, and intimidated doctor decides to replace it for a living. On the same day another woman gave birth to twin-girls, one of which is changed. Ironically, the two girls called Masha.
The President and his Granddaughter
2000
5.6Old skipper travels with his old ship called "Fortune" on the Russian river.
Fortune
2000
4.8Four old friends are experiencing various troubles adapting to the new times in modern Russia.
Old Hags
2000
7.5Captain 2nd Rank Alexey Barsuk, facing downsizing, returns to his hometown, takes over his father's position as a forester in the Chernobyl zone, and begins a battle against the local mafia.
Ranger from the Nuclear Zone
1999
4.8Day of the Full Moon, a series of vignettes from Russia past and present, summons the spirit of Ophuls’ La Ronde, Altman’s Nashville and Short Cuts, and the time-shifting strategies of Resnais (Mon Oncle d’Amérique) to tell provocative, connected stories illustrating the waltz of years and whim of memory. In 1948, a young man, a boy, and a waiter are captivated during the full moon by a mysterious woman in a lilac dress. The effects of this event ripple across the years, washing over more than 80 characters, including a disc jockey, a fairy princess, a gangster, Alexander Pushkin, and a nostalgic dog. But which of these are dreams, and which reality? Director Shakhnazarov continues his career-long focus on the intersection of past and present with this mysterious, exhilarating mosaic of humankind, which in the end both seduces and satisfies.
Day of the Full Moon
1998
5.9Is it easy to be a walking corpse? How do you spend a half a million dollars? Can you fall in love with the same bride twice?
Children of Monday
1997
6.2Pavel and Pavelina leave their rural countryside homes and move to Moscow to find work. Once there, they find that urban life is not what they thought it was and have to endure bitter hardships as they try to find work and places to live. The two meet for the first time during a fight at a bar, when they are arrested by police along with others in the building. The understand each other's troubles and band together to avoid both the police and criminal gangs that plagued Moscow toward the end of the Soviet Union.
Migrants
1991
4.5Pyotr's jester Ivan Balakirev is caught up in complicated family relations of Russian emperor and palace intrigues of his court.
Balakirev the Jester
2001
7.0The sequel of feature-publicistic film «You Can’t Live Like That». Showing the countrymen charmless and sometimes scaring life picture of once great power with pain and anger, the author tries to uncover the reason of the country’s and nation’s tragedy.
The Russia We Lost
1992
9.0Don Quixote and Sancho Panza arrive in Georgia to free Prometheus - the same Amiran, who is chained in the Caucasus Mountains. They meet the local prince Luarsab and go with him in search of Amiran. Their journey is both funny and sad. They try to establish justice, help everyone, but their actions are incomprehensible to the population. They encounter cruelty, indifference, categoricality... However, they also meet good people.
The Chained Knights
2000
NRParis, 1930s. There is ferment among the Russian emigration: part of it is accumulating strength to overthrow the Bolsheviks, others are illegally, but actively working for the Soviet government.
Charm of Evil
2006
5.9Thirty years have passed since audiences first met the cheerful Troubadour, the beautiful Princess, and their four-legged musician friends. Much has changed since then: the Troubadour and the Princess have had a son, the King has fallen on hard times, while the bandits now live in comfort, and the Lady Ataman, who has become a Banker, weaves her web of intrigue.
The New Bremen Musicians
2000
9.01917, the eve of the February Revolution. Kirill Astakhov, a Bolshevik, one of the organizers of the suppressed riot, is transferred from the Siberian Archinsk prison to the Kutuisky stockade. He is accompanied by the warden Stepan Filimonov, who has his own scores to settle with politicians.
February Wind
1982
4.3No synopsis available yet.
In a Busy Place
1999
7.0A large-format movie about the life of the scientist and breeder Academician I.P.Lugovenko. Academician-breeder Lugovenko created a variety of wheat, which is not afraid of the vagaries of nature and gives high yields. The academician recalls his life, how he came here as a young man and stayed forever, how a young trainee became his wife, how their son was killed by an enemy shell. His friends and comrades-in-arms did not leave him in a difficult moment, and now, at the moment of his victory, they are also by his side.
Here, on My Own Land
1980
