Dmitry Meskhiev

Director, producer. Merited Artist of Russia (2006). Born in Leningrad in 1963. Graduated from the director’s faculty of the Film Institute VGIK (1988, class of M. Khutsiev). In 1989 made his debut film “Gambrinus”. As director and producer has created about 50 cinema and television films; his works have received Golden Eagle and NIKA awards in the categories Best Film and Best Series, and prizes from the Guild of Film Critics and Scholars; they have gathered prizes worldwide, including the main prize and a prize for direction at the Moscow IFF in 2004.

Works

Mechanical Suite

Two colleagues go to fetch the body of their co-worker from a neighboring town where that man died unexpectedly. As this person has no kin, the director of the factory chooses to send Markerants and Mityagin to deal with the whole business. And here the adventures begin...

Release Date2002-01-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Vote Count7

Woman's Own

A student is trying to build a career in theater using not his talent but looks and sexuality.

Release Date1999-04-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd

Vote Count3

The Arrival of a Train

Almanac of five short stories commissioned by ROSKOMKINO to celebrate the 100th anniversary of cinema.

Release Date1996-10-08

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd

Vote Count4

Adult Children Games

Pavel has passionately fallen in love with 18-year-old Katya, a daughter of the horse stable owner, where he works as a vet. He constantly comes up with different ways to attract Katya's attention. However, his plans are shuttered by Alexei, whom Katya has found seriously wounded and in need of medical aid at the road side. Alexei's coming disrupts the usual course of life of the farm's inhabitants. Katya, a strange and extraordinary girl, falls in love with Alexei, who is seeking to escape from this queer place. Meanwhile, Katya's mother, Irina, is torn between her daughter and her love for Pavel. Passion, jealousy and hatred become intertwined in this love square.

Release Date2010-12-25

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Seven Booths

What, it would seem, could be more innocent than a women's toilet being renovated? In his booths you can hide from the bustle of the big city, discuss lovers, drink, cry, sleep, smoke and have sex... And you can also hide in it what no one should find. An unknown beauty leaves a disc with information in the toilet. Two gangsters come to collect theirs and 7 stalls in the closet of a fashionable nightclub become the stage for one of the most unexpected stories of our time.

Release Date2007-02-07

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count4

Butterfly Kiss

He is the genius of industrial espionage. She is a Chinese. She has nothing, she does not even have a name. They love each other madly, but they belong to the system. Go away from the system can only be to the madhouse, or to the grave.

Release Date2006-06-06

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count13

Our Own

It is August 1941. With the battle line far away in the east, three soldiers who have managed to escape from captivity find it difficult to hide: the territory is occupied by the enemy. The local woods are not safe: you can easily get embogged. Are the villagers loyal? Nobody can say. There is an old man who offers to help them. Is he reliable enough? He may kill them or report them to the local German authorities. Anything may happen, but one of them, the sniper, is his son who is his youngest, his dearest.

Release Date2004-06-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count26

Street Racer

Stepan and Doker are street racers. They love cars and speed. But there is a difference between them which brings them to face each other in a deadly race.

Release Date2008-03-06

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count26

Peculiarities of the National Politics

General Ivolgin, forester Kuzmich, and good-natured Lyova now are going into politics.

Release Date2003-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count17

The Battalion

Russia, 1917, WWI. This is the story of the 1st Russian Women's Battalion of Death, formed as part of an ill-conceived propaganda ploy by the Russian Provisional Government in late May of 1917.

Release Date2015-02-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count48

The One Who Switches Off the Light

For two months a serial killer has been terrorizing the city of St. Petersburg. Every Wednesday a girl between 9 and 12 years old is the victim. The brutality of the maniac plunges city residents into horror. Parents are afraid of leaving their children alone on the street. The press reinforces the atmosphere of fear and hysteria.

Release Date2008-10-09

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count6

Swing

The life of a characters of this movie can be described as a swing - up and down, up and down; each day, each week...

Release Date2008-02-14

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count14

Battalion

Release Date2016-03-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Vote Count1

A Real Dad

Roman Shilo, a known criminal, suddenly must deal with his fourteen years old daughter and not only with her but with her little stepbrother and stepsister as well.

Release Date2008-04-17

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count8

The Man at the Window

Alexander Dronov, the actor, didn't have many success in his life. But despite all the troubles he has an important life mission - he's the man at the window.

Release Date2009-06-06

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count4

Kamikaze Diary

Vadim, a young script writer, is killed in Moscow. What's more, he had reached his height of popularity a long time ago. His friend, successful businessmen Maksim Krivoshein, begins his own investigation. Memories of their childhood and the chance discovery of Vadim's diary leads to some shocking discoveries.

Release Date2003-06-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Cynics

1918, Petrograd. The young historian Vladimir meets Olga, the daughter of the wealthy parents who have emigrated from the country after the first decrees of the Soviet power. Olga both hates revolution, and is fascinated by her.

Release Date1991-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Suzeniy-Ryazeniy

Once Olga was told that she would meet her betrothed on New Year's Eve. Disappointed in her affair with Edik, who showed up on her doorstep on New Year's Eve, she no longer trusts anyone, and decisively changes everything in her life - her style, her job, her apartment. While Olga is getting rid of unpleasant memories of the past, the angels are not idle, they decide the fates of their wards. On another New Year's Eve, an uninvited and rather persistent guest from the far North appears on Olga's doorstep. From that moment (not without the help of the angels), the New Year for Olga and other characters in the film turns into a series of incredible events...

Release Date2007-12-26

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count2

The Bomb

Russia, the early 20th century. Smart underground revolutionaries invented an apparatus detecting sexual impulses. That would let them use the erotic energy for the cause of the revolution, instead of wasting it in carnal pleasures, as the unconscionable bourgeoisie does. The revolutionaries start working on building a sex bomb, a weapon of formidable destructive power.

Release Date1997-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Otryv

In 1947, Alexey Mitrokhin comes to post-war Moscow to visit his friend, former battalion commander Argunov, who saved his life during the war. But it turns out that the battalion commander was sentenced to 25 years and is in a strict regime camp. The hero decides on a desperate act — at any cost to rescue a friend…

Release Date2012-04-02

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

The Admirer

A story based on love between Anton Chekhov and a young writer Lidiya Avilova.

Release Date2012-01-24

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count2

American Bet

A story about a love between two teenagers set in the small Russian town during sixties.

Release Date1997-06-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count10

Two Tickets Home

Liuba Vasnetsova lives in a provincial boarding school, dreams of finishing it sooner rather than later and go to St Petersburg to become a stewardess. The future seems bright: after boarding school she receives the keys to a new apartment, with a new life ahead. But on the day of her graduation she learns that she is not an orphan: her father is alive and not dead, as she was told earlier. The girl is shaken and decides to find him.

Release Date2018-10-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Over the Dark Water

Leningrad; 60th years; white nights. Walking on Neva Embankment, the charming provincial has met three friends: poet, artist and film director. And each of young people has suggested to marry him.

Release Date1993-07-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Принцесса и нищий

Release Date2004-12-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Вербное воскресенье

Release Date2009-10-07

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Gambrinus

The beginning of the 20th century. Everyone knows the pub "Gambrinus" in the southern seaside town. Here you can always get a mug of fresh beer, meet your friends, have a quick word with the hostess Madame Ivanova and, of course, listen to the inimitable playing of violinist Sasha.

Release Date1990-11-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Good Girls Go To Heaven

They say good girls go to heaven, and bad girls go wherever they want. Boys have no better options. His wife left Pashka. And he began to suffer selflessly: drunkenness, scandals, fights with the culprit of the breakup, doctors, drunkenness again, pills and even a clinic of neuroses. But he was quickly discharged, they said that he was healthy, and that he needed to continue living alone, if possible. Pashka, however, was very bad at it, until one day he met a beautiful stranger at the pharmacy. Night, wine, her apartment. Will love save this time or can it let go like that?

Release Date2021-09-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Two Captains II

The beginning of the 20th century. The recklessness of fanatics is pushing humanity towards the abyss. A revolution begins in Russia. Crazy Dr. Farkus induces an orgasm of inanimate matter. White Moroccan dwarfs are becoming active. A second Sun appears in the sky. In this difficult environment, captains selflessly confront the forces of chaos, maintaining the cosmic balance of history.

Release Date1992-01-01

Vote Count9

A Sentimental Trip to Potatoes

Having entered the institute, the hero of the film, along with his new comrades, goes to the village "for potatoes". A month spent in the "open air" not only fills the life of a spoiled urban youth with interesting acquaintances and impressions, but also gives him his first love.

Release Date1986-08-06

Vote Count3