Boris Frumin

Writing

Boris Frumin

Born

1947-10-24 (78)

Place of birth

Riga, Latvian SSR, USSR [now Latvia]

Known for

Writing

Credits

24 titles

Boris Moiseevich Frumin is a Soviet, American and Latvian film director and screenwriter. Frumin's film Errors of Youth was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. His project Siberian Triangle was presented at the 32nd Moscow International Film Festival. Frumin is an associate professor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where he shares his passion for neo-realism and Eastern European film.

Known for

Oh Lucy! poster
6.7

A lonely, chain-smoking office lady in Tokyo falls for her teacher when she decides to take English lessons. When her teacher disappears, she sets out on a journey to find him.

Oh Lucy!

2018

Brighton 4th poster
6.2

Follows Georgian ex-wrestler’s journey to Brooklyn, New York. His aim is to get his son out of a gambling debt. He meets people who help him and people who ignore him.

Brighton 4th

2022

The Rifleman poster
7.3

The love story of sixteen-year-old Arturs is interrupted by the First World War. After losing his mother and his home, he finds some consolation in joining the army, because this is the first time national battalions are allowed in the Russian Empire. But war is nothing like Arturs imagined – no glory, no fairness. It is brutal and painful. Arturs is now completely alone as war takes the lives of his father and brother. Also, no progress is made in the promised quick resolution of the war and timely return home. Within the notion that only he alone cares about returning home and that his homeland is just a playground for other nations, Arturs finds strength for the final battle and eventually returns home to start everything from scratch, just like his newly born country.

The Rifleman

2019

Illegal poster
NR

Seventies. The cold war in the midst of the USSR and the West are fighting hard for secret information about each other. Soviet intelligence agencies want to save their couriers from too much attention of customs officers at the Leningrad airport. These couriers deliver to the USSR important documents obtained by our scouts in Western Europe

Illegal

2006

Errors of Youth poster
4.9

A young guy decides to try himself in a northern region of USSR after being honorably discharged from Soviet Army.

Errors of Youth

1978

Guria poster
NR

In Guria, western Georgia – where progress has yet to take hold following the collapse of the USSR – the locals struggle to survive day to day in the 1990s, with humor, songs, and unwavering solidarity.

Guria

2026

Behind the camera

Oh Lucy! poster
6.7

A lonely, chain-smoking office lady in Tokyo falls for her teacher when she decides to take English lessons. When her teacher disappears, she sets out on a journey to find him.

Oh Lucy!

2018

Brighton 4th poster
6.2

Follows Georgian ex-wrestler’s journey to Brooklyn, New York. His aim is to get his son out of a gambling debt. He meets people who help him and people who ignore him.

Brighton 4th

2022

The Rifleman poster
7.3

The love story of sixteen-year-old Arturs is interrupted by the First World War. After losing his mother and his home, he finds some consolation in joining the army, because this is the first time national battalions are allowed in the Russian Empire. But war is nothing like Arturs imagined – no glory, no fairness. It is brutal and painful. Arturs is now completely alone as war takes the lives of his father and brother. Also, no progress is made in the promised quick resolution of the war and timely return home. Within the notion that only he alone cares about returning home and that his homeland is just a playground for other nations, Arturs finds strength for the final battle and eventually returns home to start everything from scratch, just like his newly born country.

The Rifleman

2019

Illegal poster
NR

Seventies. The cold war in the midst of the USSR and the West are fighting hard for secret information about each other. Soviet intelligence agencies want to save their couriers from too much attention of customs officers at the Leningrad airport. These couriers deliver to the USSR important documents obtained by our scouts in Western Europe

Illegal

2006

Illegal poster
NR

Seventies. The cold war in the midst of the USSR and the West are fighting hard for secret information about each other. Soviet intelligence agencies want to save their couriers from too much attention of customs officers at the Leningrad airport. These couriers deliver to the USSR important documents obtained by our scouts in Western Europe

Illegal

2006

Errors of Youth poster
4.9

A young guy decides to try himself in a northern region of USSR after being honorably discharged from Soviet Army.

Errors of Youth

1978

Errors of Youth poster
4.9

A young guy decides to try himself in a northern region of USSR after being honorably discharged from Soviet Army.

Errors of Youth

1978

Guria poster
NR

In Guria, western Georgia – where progress has yet to take hold following the collapse of the USSR – the locals struggle to survive day to day in the 1990s, with humor, songs, and unwavering solidarity.

Guria

2026

Crime and Weather poster
4.0

The story became legend school killed the most beautiful girl in school, yesterday elected a beauty queen. Who is to blame for her death: lover, friends, school teacher? Is pouring find the killer will not be easy.

Crime and Weather

2007

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Brāļu karš

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The Pencil poster
7.0

Antonina, an artist from Saint Petersburg, follows her husband, a political prisoner, to the deep north province of Russia. As she starts teaching art in a local school, she finds herself opposed by a twelve-year-old boy, Misha, whose brother is a feared local gang leader.

The Pencil

2019

The Diaries of a School Principal poster
5.3

The everyday life of a Soviet high school principal, a WWII veteran and an unfulfilled writer, whose vocation is teaching kids.

The Diaries of a School Principal

1975

Dance With Me poster
NR

A high-school folk dancing group heads to Latvian School Youth Song and Dance Festival, an event that takes place every five years and is part of the Latvian national identity – this is the culmination point of five years of work. Away from their homes and parents, they spend seven days and nights together. They are 18 and have just graduated, and this seems to be the last idle summer of their lives. Dreams mix with boredom, silly jokes with serious conversations. Taking care of one another creates affection and grows into a collective power. There are thousands like them at the festival. Every individual sensation turns into a common celebration that becomes more than just a tradition.

Dance With Me

2014

Blind Dates poster
6.4

A lonely 40-year-old schoolteacher takes up with the wife of a soon-to-be-released convict. A compassionate tragicomedy commenting on relationships and the profound emotional responsibilities they trigger.

Blind Dates

2013

Viva Castro! poster
6.0

Young Kolya is in love with his singing teacher, but his life isn't easy. His father skips town after stealing some coins from a museum and his mother is sent to a labor camp as punishment. When the father returns a year later, Kolya becomes involved with the pretty young woman hired to nurse him.

Viva Castro!

1994

Viva Castro! poster
6.0

Young Kolya is in love with his singing teacher, but his life isn't easy. His father skips town after stealing some coins from a museum and his mother is sent to a labor camp as punishment. When the father returns a year later, Kolya becomes involved with the pretty young woman hired to nurse him.

Viva Castro!

1994

Far Frontiers poster
5.0

Maria, a wife of a deputy commander of a military base, begins a relationship with another officer, Their affair quickly spirals out of control, fatally and irreversibly changing the course of Maria's and her family's life.

Far Frontiers

2021

Far Frontiers poster
5.0

Maria, a wife of a deputy commander of a military base, begins a relationship with another officer, Their affair quickly spirals out of control, fatally and irreversibly changing the course of Maria's and her family's life.

Far Frontiers

2021

Street Days poster
6.6

A middle-aged, unemployed heroin-addict, Checkie, loiters on the Tbilisi street outside his son’s school, where he himself was once a promising student. His wife, meanwhile, struggles to pay the tuition and understand her husband’s lack of interest in the family’s survival—even as the bank repossesses their furniture. But when a group of policemen blackmails Checkie into entrapping the son of his wealthy friend, husband and wife are unified by the uncertainty of their deepening moral dilemma, and a series of worsening foul-ups, in Levan Koguashvili’s lightly humorous yet realistic drama about the fate of a generation left behind in Georgia’s post-Soviet era.

Street Days

2010

Black and White poster
7.0

Black and White is the story of Lisa, a young Soviet emigre studying medicine in Manhattan, Roy, an African American building superintendent on New York's Lower East Side, and the bond that they form from living on the edges of Manhattan. Filled with an assortment of fringe artists, disenfranchised immigrants, diamond dealers and sexual surrogates, the film is ultimately about breaking down barriers between people.

Black and White

1992

Black and White poster
7.0

Black and White is the story of Lisa, a young Soviet emigre studying medicine in Manhattan, Roy, an African American building superintendent on New York's Lower East Side, and the bond that they form from living on the edges of Manhattan. Filled with an assortment of fringe artists, disenfranchised immigrants, diamond dealers and sexual surrogates, the film is ultimately about breaking down barriers between people.

Black and White

1992

Black and White poster
7.0

Black and White is the story of Lisa, a young Soviet emigre studying medicine in Manhattan, Roy, an African American building superintendent on New York's Lower East Side, and the bond that they form from living on the edges of Manhattan. Filled with an assortment of fringe artists, disenfranchised immigrants, diamond dealers and sexual surrogates, the film is ultimately about breaking down barriers between people.

Black and White

1992

Family Melodrama poster
NR

A story of a former stage singer who now works as a hairdresser and tries to raise her teenage son. Her teenage son is entering the adult world and tries to find his place in it. Her ex-husband tries to manage his relationships with his new family, his ex-wife and his son.

Family Melodrama

1977

No artwork available
NR

Boris Frumin's term paper, the first test of the pen, where he captures in a free and easy manner the unbearable lightness of being.

Trio

1973