
Directing
Viacheslav Kryshtofovych
Born 1947-10-26 · Kyiv, Ukraine
Acting credits
Behind the camera
As a Russian gangster and music producer, Dennis had it all, but everything unravels after his wife commits suicide. He funded his wife's music career with borrowed money from the mafia, but when they come to collect after her funeral, he cannot pay. After discovering unsent love letters written by his wife to a monk named Aleksis, Dennis flees to the countryside to escape the gangsters and set things straight. The problem is, Aleksis took a vow of silence at a monastery after his wife and daughter left him and doesn’t know his wife remarried. With the mafia breathing down their necks, Dennis is determined to tell Aleksis everything, and everyone involved faces hard choices and sacrifices for the ones they love.
О нём
2012
7.7A strange combination of circumstances leads the forty-year-old engineer Igor into the hall of the old cinema, where the film session has already begun. The main character of the picture is the poet Belov, the same romantic loser, disappointed in himself and in everything - surprisingly similar to him. Moreover, Igor soon realizes that he is looking from the side at his own life. What is happening on the screen becomes a shock and revelation for him. In the dark hall of the mysterious cinema, fate gives Igor the only chance to start all over again.
Selfportrait of an Unknown Man
1988
7.0After arguing with her mother and friend, Tanya wanders down the street and a female stranger gives her a free ticket to the theater. During the performance, a male stranger (Ivan) sits next to the protagonist. The young girl is at a crossroads: her parents insist that she should enter a pedagogical institute. But when you are 18, it seems that the whole world is at your feet. Therefore, the night before the exam the girl makes an important decision...
Before the Exam
1978
NRAlexander Pavlovich Reznikov is short of two hundred rubles (in the 1970s, about one and a half months’ salary for an office worker) to pay for the travel vouchers. His neighbor, a moonlighting contractor named Yura, offers Reznikov a way to earn the money in a single day. To do this, Alexander Palych must be present at the demolition of an old wooden house in the role of a foreman, while Yura will bring in students for the job. He will pay them ten rubles each, while they themselves will receive two hundred and fifty apiece. Reznikov agrees.
One's Own Happiness
1979
NRAlexander Pavlovich Reznikov is short of two hundred rubles (in the 1970s, about one and a half months’ salary for an office worker) to pay for the travel vouchers. His neighbor, a moonlighting contractor named Yura, offers Reznikov a way to earn the money in a single day. To do this, Alexander Palych must be present at the demolition of an old wooden house in the role of a foreman, while Yura will bring in students for the job. He will pay them ten rubles each, while they themselves will receive two hundred and fifty apiece. Reznikov agrees.
One's Own Happiness
1979
NRDima and Rita, along with the children from their group, run away from kindergarten in search of a "parrot dog." No one believes that a dog named Ralph can talk. While searching for Ralph and his owner, a circus performer, the children overcome many obstacles and have unforgettable adventures in the big city.
Hello Ralph!
1975
5.0Klava, a lonely woman who is bored with her life, posts an advertisement seeking a male companion. Valentin, a retired circus performer, responds to her message and the two enter a dubious relationship.
Lonely Woman Seeks Life Companion
1986
7.0The action takes place in a backwater small town. The story of the life of a married couple - Colonel Yagich and his wife Sophia Lvovna, a young woman, and their friend - a military doctor, who is called, like Sonechka's husband, Vladimir. Partly to spite Volodya the little man who once did not reciprocate her feeling, Sonechka married Yagich, who is thirty years older than she is. Soon the longing came - she did not love her husband. Soniechka rushes back to Volodya the little, and they begin a stormy romance...
Big Volodya, Small Volodya
1985
7.0The action takes place in a backwater small town. The story of the life of a married couple - Colonel Yagich and his wife Sophia Lvovna, a young woman, and their friend - a military doctor, who is called, like Sonechka's husband, Vladimir. Partly to spite Volodya the little man who once did not reciprocate her feeling, Sonechka married Yagich, who is thirty years older than she is. Soon the longing came - she did not love her husband. Soniechka rushes back to Volodya the little, and they begin a stormy romance...
Big Volodya, Small Volodya
1985
5.3The film is based on the story of Anatoly Kurchatkin "House of Women". A tragicomedy about four women of three generations who lives in a tiny Moscow apartment: a sick grandmother, constantly requiring attention; a mother, very peculiar woman, who still hoping to somehow arrange her personal life; and two daughters, each of whom has a lot of problems.
Adam's Rib
1990
5.3The film is based on the story of Anatoly Kurchatkin "House of Women". A tragicomedy about four women of three generations who lives in a tiny Moscow apartment: a sick grandmother, constantly requiring attention; a mother, very peculiar woman, who still hoping to somehow arrange her personal life; and two daughters, each of whom has a lot of problems.
Adam's Rib
1990
5.2Tolla is an unemployed translator whose wife is leaving him. Despondent and weak, he submits to the suggestion of an acquaintance to have a contract placed on the man that his wife is seeing. Instead, however, he arranges for the hit to be placed on himself. Before the contract is executed, he develops a relationship with a prostitute, and then changes his mind. In order to survive he takes the obvious course of action, which turns out to have possibly been unnecessary, and then he must deal with the guilt.
A Friend of the Deceased
1997
NRDrama on the novel of the same name L. N. Tolstoy. Two hussars - father and son - two morals, two worldviews. And although older Turbin frivolous in love, but reliable in friendship and principled in matters of honor. Junior Turbines do not stand up to comparison with his father - he is calculating, shallow and selfish "hussars of the new generation".
Two Hussars
1984
NRDrama on the novel of the same name L. N. Tolstoy. Two hussars - father and son - two morals, two worldviews. And although older Turbin frivolous in love, but reliable in friendship and principled in matters of honor. Junior Turbines do not stand up to comparison with his father - he is calculating, shallow and selfish "hussars of the new generation".
Two Hussars
1984
NRA poetic story of love and parting between a young man and a young woman. Based on Lesia Ukrainka’s one-act drama.
Farewell
1970
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Женщина в море
1992
5.7Slow life in a small seaside town N is suddenly disturbed by a local scandal around a man who has recently passed away. Only his wife and his friend know where he was buried, and they refuse to tell the others, seemingly in accordance to his last will. Each character seeks answers to the questions of their own, but they are searching on the outside, inquiring society and each other, so their efforts are futile. Something is about to happen.
Forebodings
2020
NRNo synopsis available yet.
О нём
2012
NRA day in the life of one not too secured family. The spouses are going to divorce and reconcile connected with this formalities. It is needed somehow to divide the property, deal with the housing. And in addition the nature gives a surprise – a flood.
Little Nothings of Life
1980
NRA day in the life of one not too secured family. The spouses are going to divorce and reconcile connected with this formalities. It is needed somehow to divide the property, deal with the housing. And in addition the nature gives a surprise – a flood.
Little Nothings of Life
1980
