Writing

Sergei Dobrotvorsky

Born — Died

1959-01-22 — 1997-08-27

Place of birth

Leningrad, USSR

Known for

Writing

Credits

12 titles

Known for

Ghoul poster
5.8

A Russian town is terrorized by a monstrous vampire, named Upyr. Upyr turns everyone into a slave, then kills. Even the Russian Mafia boss is killed, and others are in fear, because Upyr cannot be killed by a bullet. Only one fearless man brings hope to people. He sets up a trap for Upyr, by using the Mafia boss's daughter as bait.

Ghoul

1997

Nicotine poster
5.5

Mirror film, intellectual game, tribute to Jean-Luc Godard and "Breathless". The narrative plot resumes the transposed history in post-Soviet St. Petersburg.

Nicotine

1993

Shell poster
7.0

Existential drama taking place in the midst of Perestroika.

Shell

1990

For Birds, Wings Are No Burden poster
NR

1941. The children of repressed parents, residents of a special orphanage, are escaping from the Germans on a boat. With them are a young teacher, Katya, an encircled resident, Kostya, and Private Polushkin. Everyone—adults and children alike—faces an unbearably difficult journey.

For Birds, Wings Are No Burden

1989

Spirit poster
4.5

Tragic circumstances brought the Spirit, a former "Afghan", to a prison cell, where he found himself alone with the German baron Maximilian von Stoltz. The spirit once lived by the sea, in a house where there were a woman and a child. Served as a paratrooper in Afghanistan. Unknown paths led him into the criminal world, he has 11 murders to his name, the prospect of capital punishment.

Spirit

1999

The Members of the "Che-payevs" Society Talking poster
NR

Vasily Ivanovich once met with his killer… Collectivism, freedom, stupidity, fun - the main principles of the St. Petersburg underground are filmed with the help of a new myth about the heroic Chapai.

The Members of the "Che-payevs" Society Talking

1988

Film credits

Behind the camera

Ghoul poster
5.8

A Russian town is terrorized by a monstrous vampire, named Upyr. Upyr turns everyone into a slave, then kills. Even the Russian Mafia boss is killed, and others are in fear, because Upyr cannot be killed by a bullet. Only one fearless man brings hope to people. He sets up a trap for Upyr, by using the Mafia boss's daughter as bait.

Ghoul

1997

Nicotine poster
5.5

Mirror film, intellectual game, tribute to Jean-Luc Godard and "Breathless". The narrative plot resumes the transposed history in post-Soviet St. Petersburg.

Nicotine

1993

Spirit poster
4.5

Tragic circumstances brought the Spirit, a former "Afghan", to a prison cell, where he found himself alone with the German baron Maximilian von Stoltz. The spirit once lived by the sea, in a house where there were a woman and a child. Served as a paratrooper in Afghanistan. Unknown paths led him into the criminal world, he has 11 murders to his name, the prospect of capital punishment.

Spirit

1999

The Members of the "Che-payevs" Society Talking poster
NR

Vasily Ivanovich once met with his killer… Collectivism, freedom, stupidity, fun - the main principles of the St. Petersburg underground are filmed with the help of a new myth about the heroic Chapai.

The Members of the "Che-payevs" Society Talking

1988

The Members of the "Che-payevs" Society Talking poster
NR

Vasily Ivanovich once met with his killer… Collectivism, freedom, stupidity, fun - the main principles of the St. Petersburg underground are filmed with the help of a new myth about the heroic Chapai.

The Members of the "Che-payevs" Society Talking

1988

Marcephalus poster
NR

Dashing 90s. Jeff, a DJ at a small radio station, receives news of his father's sudden illness and accidentally falls into a series of unexpected events. He meets a mysterious nurse and witnesses the death of a reputable drug dealer.

Marcephalus

1998