Dmitrii Frolov

Dmitrii Frolov
director Dmitri Frolov
Born
Дмитрий Алексеевич Фролов

(1966-02-27) February 27, 1966 (age 58)
Occupation(s)Film director, director of photography, actor
Years active1981–present
AwardsTEFI
Websitedmitrfrolov.narod.ru

Dmitri Alexeyevich Frolov (Russian: Дмитрий Алексеевич Фролов; born February 27, 1966) is a Russian film director in independent experimental cinema and a director of photography.

Biography[edit]

Frolov was born in Leningrad on February 27, 1966. In 1990, he graduated from the University of Cinema and Television.[clarification needed] A screenwriter, director and cameraman, Frolov took part in more than 30 short films. He was included in several domestic film festivals – including Kinoshok in Anapa, Pure Dreams in St. Petersburg, and Cine Phantom Fest in Moscow – and foreign ones. He also shot music videos for the group Auktsion, and worked as the senior operator of the TV channel 100TV.[1]

He makes aesthetic experiments connecting with return to silent cinema on new level of film language.[2]

He is a laureate of the National Award "TEFI-2008" in the nomination "Operator of a TV film / series".[3]

In 2022 he won the special festival mention award at the first season of Casablanca Film Factory Awards.[4]

Filmography[edit]

DVD cover of a collection of movies by Dmitry Frolov

Director[edit]

Dmitri Frolov in the film
Films
  • 1987 – Dream
  • 1988 – The Way
  • 1988 – Metamorphosis
  • 1988 – Theater. Afterword
  • 1989 – Act
  • 1989 – Clownery
  • 1990 – Without words
  • 1990 – The Second Birth
  • 1991 – KARA
  • 1991 – Psycho Attack Over Soviets
  • 1991 – The Leaving
  • 1991 – Beekeeper
  • 1990–1993 – The Big Moon Nights
  • 1994 – Do not august, 1991
  • 1994 – Stairway to the sky
  • 1995 – Above the Lake (silent version)
  • 1995 – Underwater Guest
  • 1996 – Das Es
  • 1997 – Be Careful!
  • 1997 – Ten minutes of silence
  • 1998 – The Little Sotmaid
  • 1999 – Rumba
  • 2000 – Decease
  • 2001 – The Granny's Apocrypha
  • 2002 – Tango Nightingale
  • 2002 – The Two
  • 1991–2003 – Phantoms of white nights
  • 2004 – The daddy's meat
  • 2006 – Above the Lake (version with sound)
  • 2010 – Wellspring
  • 2010 – The Birth of Music
  • 2010 – Conversation
  • 2016 – The Lone
  • 2017 – Last Love
  • 2018 – Winter Will Not Be
  • 2019 – Moonlight People
  • 2020 – Borodino
  • 2021 – Astronaut's Uniform
  • 2022 – Dreams of the Past


Video clips
  • 1991 – Let her know (group "Esty")
  • 1992 – The crazy city (the group "Inflatable gun")
  • 2000 – Something like this (Leonid Fedorov ("Auktsion")
  • 2000 – There will be no winters (Leonid Fedorov ("Auktsion")
  • 2000 – Head-leg (Leonid Fedorov ("Auktsion")
  • 2000 – Lady Dee (Leonid Fedorov ("Auktsion")
  • 2000 – Far away (Leonid Fedorov ("Auktsion")
  • 2002 – Yagoda (Leonid Fedorov ("Auktsion")
  • 2002 – Catholics (Leonid Fedorov ("Auktsion")
  • 2003 – Let (Leonid Fedorov ("Auktsion")
  • 2017 – Time, back! (Sergey Oskolkov)

Cinematographer[edit]

  • 1993 – The Battle of Leningrad (directed by N. Klyuchnikov)
  • 1994 – The life and adventures of 4 friends (directed by O. Yeryshev)
  • 1994–1995 – A series of documentary reports about Timur Novikov and the New Academy of Fine Arts (directed by L. Chibor)
  • 1995 – The acceptance of fate (directed by L. Chibor)
  • 1996 – Presence (directed by A.Kuklin)
  • 1996 – After 300 years (director G.Novikov)
  • 1998 – Courant (directed by A.Kuklin)
  • 1999 – Artist Gleb Bogomolov (director L. Chibor)
  • 2000 – How "Brother-2" was shot (director V.Nepevny, T. Ober)
  • 2000 – Nobody writes to the Colonel (video clip of the BI-2 group)
  • 2000 – The Wizard of our city (directed by R. Rachev)
  • 2000 – Ugar (directed by G.Novikov)
  • 2001 – Dark Night (directed by O. Kovalov (samples)
  • 2001 – Daughter of Albion (directed by K.Kasatov)
  • 2001 – Fairy Tales (directed by B.Gorlov, K.Kasatov)
  • 2002 – Song (directed by L. Yunina)
  • 2002 – Mozart. Fantasy in the cafe (director G.Novikov)
  • 2003 – "Adjacent Rooms" (directed by K.Seliverstov)
  • 2003 – Kira (directed by V.Nepevny)
  • 2004 – Living in History (directed by G.Novikov)
  • 2004 – Children of corn (director M.Zheleznikov)
  • 2004 – Merry plumber (director V.Nepevny)
  • 2005 – Light in August (director G.Novikov)
  • 2005 – "School of Baba Yaga" (directed by A.Chikichev)
  • 2007 – "The color of time" (directed by K.Kasatov)
  • 2008 – "Children of the Siege" (directed by A.Chikichev)
  • 2008 – "Autograph of Time" (directed by A.Chikichev)
  • 2008 – "Hello, the land of heroes!" (Directed by A.Chikichev)
  • 2009 – "My contemporaries" (directed by A.Chikichev)
  • 2009 – "For Home Viewing" (directed by M.Zheleznikov)
  • 2010 – "Vasily Turkin. The book about the fighter "(directed by S. Lyalkin)
  • 2010 – "The Seasons" (directed by S. Lyalkin)
  • 2013 – "A Successful Visit" (directed by L. Galkin)
  • 2017 – "Unknown Leningrad Region" (directed by S. Lyalkin)
  • 2017 – "Last Love"
  • 2019 – "Moonlight People"
  • 2022 – "Dreams of the Past"
  • TV: 1996–1999 – series of programs "Line of Cinema" (ORT-1 channel) (prize of the festival "White pillars" in 1999)

Actor[edit]

Year Title Role
1987 Dream A character, a mime
1988 The Way 1st Comrade
Metamorphosis Figure
1989 Clownery Daniil Harms
1993 The Bigmoon Nights A Man with an Accordion
Shatanger Aylok Unutor Flor
2002 Tango Nightingale The Male
2020 Borodino Bagration and Kutuzov's adjutant
2022 Dreams of the Past Officer

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Биография | Творчество режиссера Дмитрия Фролова". art-house.net. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  2. ^ "Dmitry Frolov | IFFR". iffr.com. Retrieved 2021-09-08.
  3. ^ "TEFI (2008)". IMDb. Retrieved Jul 20, 2022.
  4. ^ "Casablanca Film Factory Awards: Winners announced". Mathrubhumi. 3 July 2020. Retrieved 3 September 2022.

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