
Directing
Rodion Chepel
Born
1984-02-28 (42)
Place of birth
Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia)
Known for
Directing
Credits
19 titles
Russian journalist, reporter and documentary filmmaker.
Known for
4.5A story about the work of the elite segment of the sex industry in modern Russia on behalf of the representatives of the illegal business themselves.
Life on Call. Doc
2023
NRRaisa Gorbachev, Nancy Reagan, Jacqueline Kennedy, Margaret Thatcher. Their names have been in the same row for a long time. This film is a bold attempt to rethink the role of Raisa Gorbacheva in the history of modern Russia. How did a girl from a simple village grow into one of the main humanists of the 20th century, revolutionizing many areas of the country's life? Why exactly do we owe reforms in education, medicine and culture to Raisa Maksimovna? What thoughts and ideas voiced by her are still relevant?
Gorbacheva
2024
6.6The first biography of Pavel Durov, the creator of the social network VKontakte and the Telegram messenger told by his close circle. The biography of a person who claims to protects your privacy, but in fact - protects his own.
Durov
2021
5.0An oligarch who is allowed to do anything. The owner of an escort agency. A businessman convicted of sexualized violence. What do they have in common? The fact that they are all clients of the sex services market. It is the customers who form the demand for sex for money. But do they understand this?
Life on Call. Male Gaze
2024
10.0In recent years, Viktor Pelevin has been releasing a novel every year, each with a circulation of about 100 thousand copies - this is one of the best results in the country. At the same time, he has not given interviews for almost 20 years, does not appear in public and, according to rumors, does not live in Russia. Film director Rodion Chepel makes an attempt to combat hoaxes. To do this, he studied the archives, the early works of Viktor Pelevin and interviewed people who knew him.
Pelevin
2022
NRWhere are the boundaries of permissible self-defense when it comes to the civilian use of firearms? Does a person who is not going to use it need a weapon? The author's investigation helps to take an objective look at all these issues, to study in detail the position of people who have somehow encountered the use of firearms in everyday life.
The Right to Shoot
2023
Film credits
Behind the camera
4.5A story about the work of the elite segment of the sex industry in modern Russia on behalf of the representatives of the illegal business themselves.
Life on Call. Doc
2023
NRRaisa Gorbachev, Nancy Reagan, Jacqueline Kennedy, Margaret Thatcher. Their names have been in the same row for a long time. This film is a bold attempt to rethink the role of Raisa Gorbacheva in the history of modern Russia. How did a girl from a simple village grow into one of the main humanists of the 20th century, revolutionizing many areas of the country's life? Why exactly do we owe reforms in education, medicine and culture to Raisa Maksimovna? What thoughts and ideas voiced by her are still relevant?
Gorbacheva
2024
6.6The first biography of Pavel Durov, the creator of the social network VKontakte and the Telegram messenger told by his close circle. The biography of a person who claims to protects your privacy, but in fact - protects his own.
Durov
2021
6.6The first biography of Pavel Durov, the creator of the social network VKontakte and the Telegram messenger told by his close circle. The biography of a person who claims to protects your privacy, but in fact - protects his own.
Durov
2021
5.0An oligarch who is allowed to do anything. The owner of an escort agency. A businessman convicted of sexualized violence. What do they have in common? The fact that they are all clients of the sex services market. It is the customers who form the demand for sex for money. But do they understand this?
Life on Call. Male Gaze
2024
5.0An oligarch who is allowed to do anything. The owner of an escort agency. A businessman convicted of sexualized violence. What do they have in common? The fact that they are all clients of the sex services market. It is the customers who form the demand for sex for money. But do they understand this?
Life on Call. Male Gaze
2024
5.0An oligarch who is allowed to do anything. The owner of an escort agency. A businessman convicted of sexualized violence. What do they have in common? The fact that they are all clients of the sex services market. It is the customers who form the demand for sex for money. But do they understand this?
Life on Call. Male Gaze
2024
10.0In recent years, Viktor Pelevin has been releasing a novel every year, each with a circulation of about 100 thousand copies - this is one of the best results in the country. At the same time, he has not given interviews for almost 20 years, does not appear in public and, according to rumors, does not live in Russia. Film director Rodion Chepel makes an attempt to combat hoaxes. To do this, he studied the archives, the early works of Viktor Pelevin and interviewed people who knew him.
Pelevin
2022
10.0In recent years, Viktor Pelevin has been releasing a novel every year, each with a circulation of about 100 thousand copies - this is one of the best results in the country. At the same time, he has not given interviews for almost 20 years, does not appear in public and, according to rumors, does not live in Russia. Film director Rodion Chepel makes an attempt to combat hoaxes. To do this, he studied the archives, the early works of Viktor Pelevin and interviewed people who knew him.
Pelevin
2022
NRWhere are the boundaries of permissible self-defense when it comes to the civilian use of firearms? Does a person who is not going to use it need a weapon? The author's investigation helps to take an objective look at all these issues, to study in detail the position of people who have somehow encountered the use of firearms in everyday life.
The Right to Shoot
2023
NRToday, everyone calls themselves “coaches” - unsuccessful traders, housewives and even criminal adventurers. They collect ten thousand dollars, their accounts contain nine zeros, and increasingly coaches become heroes of criminal chronicles. How to distinguish a real coach from an information gypsy, which of them will really help solve your problem, and which will just take your money? Ksenia Sobchak will try the coaching industry for herself.
Careful, Coaching
2024
NRA life-affirming film-journey into the world of Nikolai Drozdov, which will be loved by those who grew up watching “In the Animal World” and those for whom he is the charming grandfather from the Gucci campaign.
Nikolay Drozdov. Rules of Life on Earth
2025
NRInvestigation of the causes of death of Vladislav Listyev. 25 years passed, but the perpetrators of the highest-profile contract murder in Russia in the 1990s were not found. Or didn’t you want to? Or found, but silent? Rodion decided to conduct his investigation. He wants to know the name of the customer. Six months of work, dozens of interviews with colleagues, friends and relatives of Listyev, investigators who conducted the case. And everyone answers the main question: who killed Vlad Listyev?
Listyev. A New Look
2020
NRInvestigation of the causes of death of Vladislav Listyev. 25 years passed, but the perpetrators of the highest-profile contract murder in Russia in the 1990s were not found. Or didn’t you want to? Or found, but silent? Rodion decided to conduct his investigation. He wants to know the name of the customer. Six months of work, dozens of interviews with colleagues, friends and relatives of Listyev, investigators who conducted the case. And everyone answers the main question: who killed Vlad Listyev?
Listyev. A New Look
2020
A year has passed since the presidential elections in Belarus, when the current government harshly suppressed protests against falsified results. Thousands of people are still in prisons, tens of thousands were forced to go abroad. Among the new emigrants there are politicians, they are even called the government in exile. And there are ordinary citizens who could not even imagine that they would ever have to leave their homeland. The film tells how this Belarus lives, a huge community of migrants that has emerged over the past year. The stories of the heroes add up to a chronicle of what is happening in their country after the elections on August 9, 2020.
Country In Exile
2021
NRFor us, Beslan ended 10 years ago, for them it has just begun. On September 1, 2004, the four heroines of the film lost everything, and the world learned about the existence of the North Ossetian city of Beslan. In a few months, they will create a committee of the "Mother of Beslan" to fight for an honest investigation of the terrorist attack at school No. 1. At first, they did not allow the dilapidated school to be razed to the ground, then they knocked out money for the treatment and rehabilitation of hundreds of victims, blocked roads, clashed with the investigation — but none of them expected that this would drag on for many years, and hope for justice would melt much faster. Rodion Chepel's film "The Committee"- this is a private story of four women, which turns into a political thriller, a judicial drama, or a chronicle of merciless indifference. The heroines of this film have never been silent. We just didn't listen to them—or didn't want to hear them.
Committee
2014
NRIn 2011, 26-year-old Galina Kolyadzinskaya disappeared in Vladivostok. A few years later, her boyfriend, Victor Cohen, was convicted of her murder. At the same time, the investigation did not prove that the girl died, and her whole family is sure that Galina is alive, and Viktor is innocent.
This is the Real Story: The Cohen Case
2018
NRThe history of the beginning and flourishing of domestic computer technology and cybernetics in the 1950s-1960s. About a utopia that almost came true. Automation and cybernetization were even written into the Third Program of the CPSU in 1961. It was called the "Program for Building Communism", and it promised that in 20 years a communist society would be built in the USSR, free from exploitation, from want, from class contradictions, giving every person every opportunity for creative self-realization, based on the principle "from each according to abilities, to each according to his needs. The creators of this utopia, the carriers of a reasonable creative principle were scientists and engineers-cybernetics.
God From the Machine
2022
