Andrey Simonov

Andrey Simonov (Russian: Андрей Симонов; 8 November 1984) is a Russian director, screenwriter and producer.

Works

Youngling

An apolitical rapper from Donetsk volunteers to go to Mariupol to rescue his mother from the besieged city.

Release Date2026-02-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

20/22

A student of the journalism faculty, Danil, goes as a volunteer to the zone of his SMO (Special Military Operation), tired of the hypocrisy of the capital. He is from Sevastopol and knows a little more about the neighboring state than his friends. His anti-war-minded girlfriend Alice, realizing that she is expecting a child, decides to protect her young man from a fatal mistake and goes after him. Finding a loved one in the chaos of war is proving difficult.

Release Date2024-02-23

DepartmentWriting

JobScenario Writer

Episode Count4

Vote Count15

Our Own

Our Own

In Mariupol, in the spring of 2022, Ukrainian militants blocked all humanitarian corridors for refugees to exit, using people as a "human shield." Thousands of civilians were trapped in the "gray zone" without the possibility of evacuation. Only experienced jeep drivers could take people out of the villages and villages of the "gray zone" on the spring off-road. So ordinary members of the Donetsk club of SUV enthusiasts became volunteers saving people's lives. And although there is only one native of Mariupol among them, Nikolai Solovyov (Zorky) himself, for club members in the city, everyone is "one of their own", and they cannot be abandoned.

Release Date2025-11-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count6

Pain Threshold

Four friends travel to the Altai for a rafting trip on a mountain river. Cut off from civilization and face-to-face with nature at its wildest, the heroes are not able to relax but instead are forced to fight for survival. They ask for help from a group of seemingly ‘sportsmen-boaters’ they encounter on the river. But then the heroes realize that they have been taken hostage by criminals. All their weaknesses and faults are laid bare and their true selves are revealed.

Release Date2019-10-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count28

Gum

Gum

Galya Shalamova falls in love with the aspiring blogger Hans Schluse. But the frivolous major quickly gets bored with this novel — it seems to him that Galya stuck to him like chewing gum. Hans finds an unconventional way to break off the relationship. However, Hans did not realize that Galya would not give up everything halfway and get to the truth…

Release Date2024-10-16

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count8

Oil

Oil

The city of Nizhnevartovsk was lucky: all the income from the Samotlor deposit settled there. But Shevelevo, which is 50 km away, is devoid of oil, money and infrastructure, and is far from the benefits of civilization. But one almost imperceptible earthquake shifts something in the earth's crust, and the well of local plumber Semyon Plakhov suddenly fills with oil instead of water. Now Semyon has two ways: to give up the plot for a song or somehow master the extraction, processing and marketing. To prove to his wife, who wants to get a divorce and leave him with her son, that he is worth something, the quiet and calm Semyon, together with the local gifted freak Ulyan, develops underground oil production and tries to build "the most honest dishonest business."

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count1

More Than Love

More Than Love

Vika could only be envied: she has a loving family, a career, and a handsome fiance. But in an instant, it all collapses. The girl gets into an accident and gets a severe spinal injury. Doctors' forecasts are sad — most likely, she will not be able to walk on her own. The groom leaves her, and the family is already in a difficult situation — her father has serious heart problems and requires urgent surgery. Against the background of all these events, the girl falls into severe depression. She blames the second participant in the accident, Artyom, who escaped with minor injuries. And he, driven by guilt, decides to help the girl and persuades her to undergo a special rehabilitation course.

Release Date2022-11-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Centuria

Centuria

An employee of the Russian special services goes undercover to Mariupol to identify the curator of the CIA's agent network, who, using recruited youth, is preparing a large-scale terrorist attack in Russia.

Release Date2026-04-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Masha's Mom

Masha's Mom

Maria Frabova drops everything and rushes from her native village to Moscow as soon as she finds out that her pupil and nephew Oleg is under investigation. He is accused of assaulting a young girl. Maria raised Oleg like her own son and would never believe in his guilt. She is sure that the case is fabricated, and the investigators are not even trying to find the real culprit. She decides to find out the truth at all costs and therefore... kidnaps the injured girl from the hospital.

Release Date2019-09-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Love for Hire

Love for Hire

After her dismissal, the life of flight attendant Zhenya collapses in an instant. To stay afloat, she has to work as a babysitter. Zhenya is almost getting used to this role, but suddenly a new offer arrives from his employer — to pretend to be his fiancee for a few days.

Release Date2019-01-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Inna Makarova. Fortune Telling

Inna Makarova entered the history of cinema with her very first leading role – the brave underground worker Lyubka Shevtsova from the Young Guard. The film became the leader of the Soviet film distribution in 1948, and at the age of 22, Makarova received the Stalin Prize of the first degree. However, the actress had to wait almost ten years for the next big role: only in 1956, director Alexander Zarkhi approved Makarova for the role of Katya Petrashen in his film "Height" without trial.

Release Date2016-03-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Wing Chun, East-West

The film is about the Vietnamese branch of the Wing Chun martial arts style.

Release Date2015-04-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Valentin Zubkov. A Kiss Over the Abyss

He is, as they say, "typecast" – kind, honest, noble and strong-willed. The role of the captain in the film "Ivanov's Childhood" became the peak of actor Valentin Zubkov's career, and the footage of Kholin walking in a grove with a beautiful nurse Masha and a kiss shot from a trench when the girl hovered in his arms over a pit entered the treasury of world cinema...

Release Date2016-04-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector