Nikolay Dostal (Director)
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Works
Ilf and Petrov Rode in the Tram
The film tells about the life of the Soviet country in the 30s of the twentieth century, based on the feuilletons and notebooks of famous writers Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov…
Release Date1972-08-19
Charactersd Chlen komissii v tsirke
Vote Count3
Морские рассказы
The movie consists of two novellas. "The Affair". Russian sailor Nikolai and former bullfighter Spaniard Jose-Maria are hired on a ship, doomed in advance: the owner of the ship intends to sink it during the voyage to get a large insurance. "Scorpion and cotton candy." Friends are employed as sailors on the ship "Jupiter". The revolutionary committee assigns them to deliver an underground newspaper to Odesa. Scorpion himself, who can detect any contraband, takes part in the customs inspection at the Odesa port.
Release Date1967-09-18
Charactersd Jose-Maria Damec
Goodbye, Boys!
Goodbye, Boys! is the coming-of-age tale of three teenagers graduating from a Communist school during World War II. It's summer, and their main goals are swimming in the Black Sea and wooing the girl all three of them love. However, they are asked to become officers in the military, and slowly their worlds begin changing forever. Their parents oppose them, they begin fearing losing each other and their families, and the military tricks and maneuvers them into joining the army instead of the navy.
Release Date1966-01-03
Charactersd Саша Кригер
Vote Count10
The Monk and the Demon
Fantastic story of the first half of the XIX century about a monk named Ivan who must fight the dark forces in his monastery.
Release Date2016-09-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count45
The Man With the Accordion
Dmitry Gromtsev was a volunteer to go the front where he was wounded. He couldn't get back to his beloved profession of musician. The movie tells us about difficult destiny of a person who couldn't become an artist because of war.
Release Date1985-08-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Farewell
Matyora is a small village on a beautiful island with the same name. The existence of the village is threatened with flooding by the construction of a dam. This is the story of the inhabitants of Matyora and their farewell to their homeland.
Release Date1983-02-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count16
Shura & Prosvirnjak
Shura, a telephone operator, is disliked by her management for her straightforward demeanor. One day, a limping newcomer with the strange surname Prosvirnjak arrives, and Shura takes an instant antipathy to him.
Release Date1988-05-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Cloud Heaven
In this gentle comedy, an unpopular resident in a Russian village has his life completely changed when he announces, entirely on a whim and just to upset things a bit, that he's moving to the Pacific coast.
Release Date1990-12-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count26
Domestic Circumstances
Multiply love stories are going around the young family including the newlyweds parnts and even... a grandmother.
Release Date1977-06-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobSecond Unit Director
Vote Count28
Charm of Evil
Paris, 1930s. There is ferment among the Russian emigration: part of it is accumulating strength to overthrow the Bolsheviks, others are illegally, but actively working for the Soviet government.
Release Date2006-01-27
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
A Small Giant of Big Sex
Based on the story "Oh, Marat!" by Fazil Iskander. The main character of the movie, Marat, lives in a coastal town near the Black Sea, he works as a photographer at the beach and is an editor at the local newspaper. But he is known for an entirely other reason: no woman can resist him. Making love is a serious thing for Marat, although his adventures will make the viewers die with laughter...
Release Date1993-02-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
The Penal Battalion
Drama of the penalty parts of political prisoners, who fought on the Soviet fronts.
Release Date2004-09-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count11
Vote Count29
Лицо
Comedy of Nikolay Dostal
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Lenin's Testament
The author of The Kolyma Stories and many other works spent 17 years in the terrible GULAG camps on Kolyma. The term that Varlam Tikhonovich received in 1929 was for distributing Lenin's letter to the congress, in which he criticized Stalin. Nowadays, this letter is called the "testament of Lenin"…
Release Date2007-06-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count12
Vote Count1
Citizen Chief
The action takes place in our time: an exciting criminal intrigue unfolds in one of the major regional cities. In the center of it is the investigator of the prosecutor's office Paphnutiev, forced by the nature of his service to face not only the criminal elements of the city, but also the entire official city leadership.
Release Date2001-11-15
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count3
Split
The series "Split" captures the hardest and little-known period of Russian history. The history of the split of the Russian Orthodox Church in the XVII century. This picture is about the fate of historical figures - Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and his son Fyodor Alekseevich, the Morozov brothers, boyar Feodosia Morozova, about the church reforms of Patriarch Nikon and the ardent opponents of these transformations led by Archpriest Avvakum.
Release Date2011-09-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count20
It Can't Be!
The film includes three short stories based on the stories of Mikhail Zoshchenko: "Crime and Punishment", "Fun Adventure", and "Wedding Event" about the negative phenomena of the provincial life of the young country of the Soviets: stupidity, drunkenness, money-grubbing, lack of spirituality.
Release Date1975-10-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobCo-Director
Vote Count71
Stiletto
A real life in which success and crime, honor and betrayal, love and hate are entwined in a tight knot that only a Stiletto can cut…
Release Date2009-10-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
Little Devil
A small provincial town. The inhabitants are bored, apathetic and bitter... Peredonov, a modest high school teacher, dreams about a promotion and moving to the capital. Gradually his dream becomes an obsession. Varvara, his second cousin who dreams about marrying him, writes a promising letter about an invitation to Saint-Petersburg on behalf of the capital's princess. But the teacher's dreams aren't meant to come true: he becomes a victim of his own insanity and kills his friend and the hateful Varvara...
Release Date1995-02-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
The Policemen and the Thieves
When a charming crook sold fake archaeological treasures to a naive foreigner, he did not know what he was doing: an overseas guest turned out to be the director of a Russian-American pasta factory. The deceived American angrily orders his guard to find a thief. Unhappy fraudster awaits terrible punishment.
Release Date1998-12-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
By Faith and Honor
The question is what to build — palaces designed to last for centuries, or cheap concrete blocks that offer a quick fix to the housing crisis. Behind each of these choices stand scholars, architects, and Party officials.
Release Date1979-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Peter on the Way to Heaven
In the small town of Kandalaksha, Petya lives out a fantasy life as a traffic cop. He has a holster, a wooden gun, and the locals humor him by following his "orders." When a convict escapes from a nearby prison, Petya joins the manhunt as any good officer would.
Release Date2009-06-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count10
Kolya - Rolling Stone
After a few years in a big world Kolya is returning to his village and life in the village is going wild.
Release Date2005-10-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count9
I'm All Right
The story is about a marriage swindler of all-Union scale, who once decided to get married, and at the same time to check the profitability of his home filing cabinet, was convinced of its disorder. Upset by the failure, Gvozdev meets Zina in a bar and unwittingly finds himself drawn into the circle of misfortunes of a former variety show dancer (as she introduced herself to him).
Release Date1989-12-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay