
Directing
Grigory Konstantinopolsky
Born 1964-01-29 · Moscow, USSR (Russia)
Grigory Mikhailovich Konstantinopolsky (Russian: Григорий Михайлович Константинопольский; born January 29, 1964; Moscow) is a Russian film actor, film director, screenwriter, film producer, composer and artist. Graduated from the actor’s faculty of the Yaroslavl Theatre Institute (class of S. Rozov), and the director’s department of the Higher Courses for Scriptwriters and Directors (class of R. Bykov). Since 1992 works in advertising and show business; has made over 300 music clips; prize-winner of advertising festivals. His short “Residential District Star” (1991) participated in the Panorama section of the Berlinale. In 1999 made his debut feature “$81⁄2” (the Golden Aries award in the category Best Debut). The film participated in the debut competition of Kinotavr. In 2009 the film “Pussycat” closed the Kinotavr festival and won three prizes at the Window to Europe festival. In 2010 he made “The Female”. In 2016 acted as director, screenwriter and composer for the mini-series “Drunken Firm”. This work brought him the “Word” award of V. Chernykh in the category Best Script for TV. “Russian Psycho” is his fourth feature film.
Acting credits
NRFive unusual short stories. Two heroes are fighting for the heart of a mysterious beauty in the tragicomedy Olesya. In the parable "Milk" in the high-rise kitchen a real cow appears. The heroine of the comedy without the “Not Fit” dialogues is torn between the desire to lose weight by the alumni meeting and the modern food cult. The eccentric Rita Hurricane rushes into the life of the security guard of the Leo shopping center and changes it forever. And the hero of the story "Carpe diem" solves an important question - to lie or not to lie, when everyone around is lying.
Russian Shorts. Vol. 1
2018
5.1The story of a woman returning from a labor camp. She is looking for a person, on whose denunciation she was arrested, in order to take revenge on him, but having completed her judgment, she realizes that revenge is meaningless.
Anna Karamazoff
1991
The main character of the story, 18-year-old Ilya Rozov (Nikita Presnyakov) comes to the Moscow branch of Raybank and gets a job as a cleaner. Ilyusha easily gets along with people and even enjoys some popularity, mainly due to his helpfulness, when suddenly he loses his job due to a minor offense.
Visiting Fairytale$
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5.3Gera, a respected director of TV commercials, thinks he's capable of creating a fiction movie masterpiece. Predictably, he ends up with owning money to a mafia and no film to show for. To make his life even crazier he falls in love with a girl who belongs to the boss of mafia.
8 ½ $
1999
5.0After his marriage with Lyuba breaks down, Boris begins to search for an apartment of his own. He locates an apartment for couples which is being inhabited by a lone old lady who is supposed to move in with her sister. The old lady doesn't want to go, and tries to stave off the inevitable by taking in a young woman Elya as a flat-mate.
Assuage My Sorrows
1989
6.5The film is based on a conflict between the director of a textile mill and the chief engineer, who regards the initiative of the director for automation of the enterprise as a projection project. However, thanks to young specialists, the director achieves the implementation of his plans by solving the demographic problem of the textile town and providing men with jobs.
The City of Brides
1985
6.2Short stories that seem to be absolutely different, none of the main characters is connected with the other one, each following story is totally unlike the previous one. Only in the end of the film the viewer gets the clear explanation of the neighborhood of the described destinies and the connection between the characters.
Pussycat
2009
Zhenya fancies himself an omnipotent hypnotist. And wow, it worked: autosuggestion is a great thing! A close look, a slow movement of the hand - and now a large casino has been ruined. Where to go with so much money?..
Hypnosis
2001
No synopsis available yet.
Celebrities on Tudor Street
1991
4.7Contemporary Moscow. Svyatoslav, a poor boy, falls in love with Asya, a rich girl, and wants to marry her. To support her in the manner in which she is accustomed, he opens an upscale restaurant. But he soon discovers he has a unseen enemy.
Russian Psycho
2019
5.0The action unfolds in our days, in the small Volga town of Kalinov, where nothing has changed since the days of Alexander Ostrovsky’s classical play: if any rays of light do appear in the dark empire, then they are doomed to perish quietly in the general absurdity and ignorance, or shine brightly as a token of protest against lie and tyranny. The young, married girl Katerina Kabanova leads a happy life — at first sight. Only her mother-in-law Kabanikha constantly nags her and does not allow her to take things easy. Her weak-willed husband Tikhon loves his wife, but he always sides with his powerful mother. When Katerina unexpectedly falls in love with Boris, the young relative of the town’s mayor, she finds that he also has tender feelings for her…
Thunderstorm
2019
1.0"Oh my God !!!! ... Unbelievable !!! ... I believe - Bigfoot exists. He is !!! ... He kidnapped me !!! He is good !!! ... We are going to get acquainted with his parents !!! ... I think he likes me. Vanya - Give mushrooms !!! "- that so begins an extraordinary video footage recorded by the camera, which accidentally found in the woods by hunters. What is it - a sensation? Russian King Kong? Maybe poignant love story? Six months ago, somewhere in the Urals, in the taiga, lost television journalism Larisa Debomonova. Where is it - nobody knows. Let's inspection before the end of the hour and a half plot. Perhaps we will learn what happened to her.
The Female
2011
NRThis is a modern story of a prosperous family, in whose harmonious way of life a young man, a former partner of her husband in creating a computer network, breaks into. Involving his wife in a love affair, he pretends to be a messenger from Shambhala. At some point, she is ready to believe him, despite her husband's convictions that her chosen one is crazy. The psychologically tense action is set off by episodes of the hero's fantasies, in which the intrigue is given a comic effect, so there is no reason to assume a tragic ending.
Right to Choose
2000
4.7Near the walls of the Kremlin, a real duel unfolds between two former friends over a girl of exceptional beauty and supernatural powers named Olesya.... But who is Olesya?... a 16-year-old feeble-minded girl, the week-long wife, a blessed fool with superpowers, able to light up lamps and electrocute in the bedroom. She is a literary character living in 21st century Moscow, unaware of her own beauty and power. For the two young and rich playboys, Olesya's 'spicy make-up' takes on a whole new meaning. But what can this pretentious duel change in an iPhone-world full of infidelity, vanity, and cruelty?
Olesya
2018
5.4A son comes to Leningrad on the birthday of his mother. He is the director of a large Siberian construction, twice married, happy in work, and in family life. His second wife Lida is also here. She brought her son and daughter with her. The youth of the mother of the family fell on the 30s. Life practically did not change its principles and beliefs. And it's not clear to her children, and even more so grandchildren, for whom her ideals do not mean anything.
Remember Me This Way
1988
2.7Andrei's ex-girlfriend Tania (Anzhela Belyanskaya) has been constantly in danger of going to jail since he knew her. Their breakup was not his doing, and he is determined to keep her out of jail. Andrei (Oleg Menshikov) has a notion that, if he can raise enough money, he can smuggle her out of Russia into New York, where all will be well. While Andrei's grasp on reality may be tenuous, his ability to maneuver and scheme is unimpaired. He is a student filmmaker, and the kind of money he needs to save Tania with doesn't grow on trees. He begins raising funds by mugging men at public toilets, and graduates to stealing the drug money accumulated by more serious gangsters. After he has raised the money to accomplish his goal, his girl, the light of his life, confesses that she despises him, and then goes out and gets arrested.
Dyuba-Dyuba
1992
8.0The heroine of the film is an employee of an automobile factory, a person with a whole generous character. Always ready to help those who need her help, she doesn't worry about how her personal life is going, but she's quite happy.
I Am Responsible for You
1985
Behind the camera
NRFive unusual short stories. Two heroes are fighting for the heart of a mysterious beauty in the tragicomedy Olesya. In the parable "Milk" in the high-rise kitchen a real cow appears. The heroine of the comedy without the “Not Fit” dialogues is torn between the desire to lose weight by the alumni meeting and the modern food cult. The eccentric Rita Hurricane rushes into the life of the security guard of the Leo shopping center and changes it forever. And the hero of the story "Carpe diem" solves an important question - to lie or not to lie, when everyone around is lying.
Russian Shorts. Vol. 1
2018
NRFive unusual short stories. Two heroes are fighting for the heart of a mysterious beauty in the tragicomedy Olesya. In the parable "Milk" in the high-rise kitchen a real cow appears. The heroine of the comedy without the “Not Fit” dialogues is torn between the desire to lose weight by the alumni meeting and the modern food cult. The eccentric Rita Hurricane rushes into the life of the security guard of the Leo shopping center and changes it forever. And the hero of the story "Carpe diem" solves an important question - to lie or not to lie, when everyone around is lying.
Russian Shorts. Vol. 1
2018
NRFive unusual short stories. Two heroes are fighting for the heart of a mysterious beauty in the tragicomedy Olesya. In the parable "Milk" in the high-rise kitchen a real cow appears. The heroine of the comedy without the “Not Fit” dialogues is torn between the desire to lose weight by the alumni meeting and the modern food cult. The eccentric Rita Hurricane rushes into the life of the security guard of the Leo shopping center and changes it forever. And the hero of the story "Carpe diem" solves an important question - to lie or not to lie, when everyone around is lying.
Russian Shorts. Vol. 1
2018
The main character of the story, 18-year-old Ilya Rozov (Nikita Presnyakov) comes to the Moscow branch of Raybank and gets a job as a cleaner. Ilyusha easily gets along with people and even enjoys some popularity, mainly due to his helpfulness, when suddenly he loses his job due to a minor offense.
Visiting Fairytale$
—
The main character of the story, 18-year-old Ilya Rozov (Nikita Presnyakov) comes to the Moscow branch of Raybank and gets a job as a cleaner. Ilyusha easily gets along with people and even enjoys some popularity, mainly due to his helpfulness, when suddenly he loses his job due to a minor offense.
Visiting Fairytale$
—
5.3Gera, a respected director of TV commercials, thinks he's capable of creating a fiction movie masterpiece. Predictably, he ends up with owning money to a mafia and no film to show for. To make his life even crazier he falls in love with a girl who belongs to the boss of mafia.
8 ½ $
1999
5.3Gera, a respected director of TV commercials, thinks he's capable of creating a fiction movie masterpiece. Predictably, he ends up with owning money to a mafia and no film to show for. To make his life even crazier he falls in love with a girl who belongs to the boss of mafia.
8 ½ $
1999
Maxim gets a job on a cruise ship, which soon crashes, and turns out to be the only survivor. He, along with a bar full of alcohol, or rather, right on it, is carried to a deserted island.
Return of Robinson
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Maxim gets a job on a cruise ship, which soon crashes, and turns out to be the only survivor. He, along with a bar full of alcohol, or rather, right on it, is carried to a deserted island.
Return of Robinson
—
6.2Short stories that seem to be absolutely different, none of the main characters is connected with the other one, each following story is totally unlike the previous one. Only in the end of the film the viewer gets the clear explanation of the neighborhood of the described destinies and the connection between the characters.
Pussycat
2009
6.2Short stories that seem to be absolutely different, none of the main characters is connected with the other one, each following story is totally unlike the previous one. Only in the end of the film the viewer gets the clear explanation of the neighborhood of the described destinies and the connection between the characters.
Pussycat
2009
6.2Short stories that seem to be absolutely different, none of the main characters is connected with the other one, each following story is totally unlike the previous one. Only in the end of the film the viewer gets the clear explanation of the neighborhood of the described destinies and the connection between the characters.
Pussycat
2009
Zhenya fancies himself an omnipotent hypnotist. And wow, it worked: autosuggestion is a great thing! A close look, a slow movement of the hand - and now a large casino has been ruined. Where to go with so much money?..
Hypnosis
2001
Zhenya fancies himself an omnipotent hypnotist. And wow, it worked: autosuggestion is a great thing! A close look, a slow movement of the hand - and now a large casino has been ruined. Where to go with so much money?..
Hypnosis
2001
6.4Nevalyashka is a young and very successful boxer who is dreaming about the winning against the famous champion...
The Slacker
2007
4.7Contemporary Moscow. Svyatoslav, a poor boy, falls in love with Asya, a rich girl, and wants to marry her. To support her in the manner in which she is accustomed, he opens an upscale restaurant. But he soon discovers he has a unseen enemy.
Russian Psycho
2019
4.7Contemporary Moscow. Svyatoslav, a poor boy, falls in love with Asya, a rich girl, and wants to marry her. To support her in the manner in which she is accustomed, he opens an upscale restaurant. But he soon discovers he has a unseen enemy.
Russian Psycho
2019
4.7Contemporary Moscow. Svyatoslav, a poor boy, falls in love with Asya, a rich girl, and wants to marry her. To support her in the manner in which she is accustomed, he opens an upscale restaurant. But he soon discovers he has a unseen enemy.
Russian Psycho
2019
4.2A ravishing comedy about controversial post-Soviet Russia of the 90s with storylines of four friends in the world of the glam-our entertainment industry closely tangled with criminals. The movie savors the final moments of the golden age of Russian clip makers full of easy money, dolce vita and danger.
Clipmakers
2023
4.2A ravishing comedy about controversial post-Soviet Russia of the 90s with storylines of four friends in the world of the glam-our entertainment industry closely tangled with criminals. The movie savors the final moments of the golden age of Russian clip makers full of easy money, dolce vita and danger.
Clipmakers
2023
1.0"Oh my God !!!! ... Unbelievable !!! ... I believe - Bigfoot exists. He is !!! ... He kidnapped me !!! He is good !!! ... We are going to get acquainted with his parents !!! ... I think he likes me. Vanya - Give mushrooms !!! "- that so begins an extraordinary video footage recorded by the camera, which accidentally found in the woods by hunters. What is it - a sensation? Russian King Kong? Maybe poignant love story? Six months ago, somewhere in the Urals, in the taiga, lost television journalism Larisa Debomonova. Where is it - nobody knows. Let's inspection before the end of the hour and a half plot. Perhaps we will learn what happened to her.
The Female
2011
1.0"Oh my God !!!! ... Unbelievable !!! ... I believe - Bigfoot exists. He is !!! ... He kidnapped me !!! He is good !!! ... We are going to get acquainted with his parents !!! ... I think he likes me. Vanya - Give mushrooms !!! "- that so begins an extraordinary video footage recorded by the camera, which accidentally found in the woods by hunters. What is it - a sensation? Russian King Kong? Maybe poignant love story? Six months ago, somewhere in the Urals, in the taiga, lost television journalism Larisa Debomonova. Where is it - nobody knows. Let's inspection before the end of the hour and a half plot. Perhaps we will learn what happened to her.
The Female
2011
1.0"Oh my God !!!! ... Unbelievable !!! ... I believe - Bigfoot exists. He is !!! ... He kidnapped me !!! He is good !!! ... We are going to get acquainted with his parents !!! ... I think he likes me. Vanya - Give mushrooms !!! "- that so begins an extraordinary video footage recorded by the camera, which accidentally found in the woods by hunters. What is it - a sensation? Russian King Kong? Maybe poignant love story? Six months ago, somewhere in the Urals, in the taiga, lost television journalism Larisa Debomonova. Where is it - nobody knows. Let's inspection before the end of the hour and a half plot. Perhaps we will learn what happened to her.
The Female
2011
5.0The action unfolds in our days, in the small Volga town of Kalinov, where nothing has changed since the days of Alexander Ostrovsky’s classical play: if any rays of light do appear in the dark empire, then they are doomed to perish quietly in the general absurdity and ignorance, or shine brightly as a token of protest against lie and tyranny. The young, married girl Katerina Kabanova leads a happy life — at first sight. Only her mother-in-law Kabanikha constantly nags her and does not allow her to take things easy. Her weak-willed husband Tikhon loves his wife, but he always sides with his powerful mother. When Katerina unexpectedly falls in love with Boris, the young relative of the town’s mayor, she finds that he also has tender feelings for her…
Thunderstorm
2019