Director,
Writer,
Actor,
Producer
Born 1963, USSR
 
 
Dmitry MESKHIEV
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Дмитрий МЕСХИЕВ
Dmitri MESKHIEV
Filmography (extracts)
 
Director
2021 - Good girls go to heaven (Хорошие девочки попадают в рай) [fiction, full length film]
2018 - Two Tickets Home (Два билета домой) [fiction, 100 mn]
2015 - Battalion (Батальонъ) [fiction, 120 mn]
2010 - The Man at the Window (Человек у окна) [fiction, 96 mn]
2007 - Seven Stalls (Семь кабинок) [fiction, 95 mn]
2004 - Our own (Свои) [fiction, 100 mn]
2003 - Osobennosti natsionalnoy politiki (Особенности национальной политики) [fiction, 83 mn]
2003 - Linii sudby (Линии судьбы)
2002 - Dnevnik kamikadze (Дневник камикадзе) [135 mn]
2001 - Mechanical Suite (Механическая сюита) [fiction, 100 mn]
1999 - Zhenskaya sobstvennost (Женская собственность) [fiction, 92 mn]
1997 - The American Bet (Американка) [fiction, 90 mn]
1997 - The Bomb (Бомба) [fiction, 73 mn]
1995 - Arrival of a Train (Прибытие поезда) [fiction, 98 mn]
1993 - Over the Dark Water (Над темной водой) [fiction, 96 mn]
1991 - Cynics (Циники) [fiction, 106 mn]
1990 - Gambrinus (Гамбринус) [fiction, 88 mn]
 
Writer
2021 - Good girls go to heaven (Хорошие девочки попадают в рай) from Dmitry MESKHIEV [fiction, full length film]
2018 - Two Tickets Home (Два билета домой) from Dmitry MESKHIEV [fiction, 100 mn]
1991 - Cynics (Циники) from Dmitry MESKHIEV [fiction, 106 mn]
 
Actor
1992 - Two captains-2 (Два капитана-2) from Sergey DEBIZHEV [fiction, 68 mn]
 
Producer
2018 - Two Tickets Home (Два билета домой) from Dmitry MESKHIEV [fiction, 100 mn]
2011 - Games for Children of an Adult Age (Игры детей взрослого возраста) from Ilya KAZANKOV [fiction, 69 mn]
2011 - The Road Side House (Дом на обочине) from Anton SIVERS [fiction, full length film]
2011 - The Admirer (Поклонница) from Vitali MELNIKOV [fiction, full length film]
2010 - The Man at the Window (Человек у окна) from Dmitry MESKHIEV [fiction, 96 mn]
2008 - The One Who Switches Off The Light (Тот, кто гасит свет) from Andrey LIBENSON [fiction, 86 mn]
2008 - Kacheli (Качели) from Anton SIVERS [fiction, 84 mn]
2008 - A Real Dad (Реальный папа) from Sergey BOBROV [fiction, 85 mn]
2007 - Seven Stalls (Семь кабинок) from Dmitry MESKHIEV [fiction, 95 mn]
2007 - Snezhnyy angel (Снежный ангел) from Aleksandr KARPILOVSKY [TV fiction, 101 mn]
2006 - The Kiss of Butterfly (Поцелуй бабочки) from Anton SIVERS [fiction, 93 mn]
 
Site : IMDb

Awards :
Battalion :
Audience Award, Festival international du cinéma d'Alger : FICA, Algiers (Algeria), 2017
The Man at the Window :
First prize, Comic Film Festival "Ulybnis, Rossiya", Moscow (Russia), 2010
Our own :
Best Screenplay, Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2005
Best Cinematography, Golden Eagle awards, Moscow (Russia), 2005
Audience Award, "Vyborg" Russian Film Festival (formerly ''A Window to Europe''), Vyborg (Russia), 2004
First prize, Moscow International Film Festival (MIFF), Moscow (Russia), 2004
Best film, Award "White Elephant", Moscow (Russia), 2004
Best film, "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2004
Best Screenplay, "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2004
Best Cinematography, "NIKA" Prizes, Moscow (Russia), 2004
Arrival of a Train :
FIPRESCI Prize, Open Russian Film Festival Kinotavr, Sochi (Russia), 1996
Zhenskaya sobstvennost :
Prix du meilleur rôle féminin à E. Safonova au 10e festival "Sozvezdié" de Tver (1999) Prix du travail d'acteur à N. Oussatova et K. Khabensky au 6e festival russe "Littérature et cinéma" de Gatchina (2000) Prix de la presse pour le film au VIIIe festival de cinéma "Vivat, cinéma de Russie" à Saint Pétersbourg (2000)
Cynics :
1992- Prix de la meilleure actrice de l'année à Ingeborga DAPKUNAITE (Ингеборга ДАПКУНАЙТЕ) pour son interprétation dans ce film et prix de la sympatie des spectateurs à Dmitri MESKHIEV (Дмитрий МЕСХИЕВ)

Biography
Born on October 31, 1963 in Leningrad.
Graduated from the department of directing at VGIK (1988, workshop of M.Khutsiev).
Since 2001 is artistic director of the studio "Cherepakha".
Since 2008 is chairman of the board of directors of the St. Petersburg branch of the Filmmakers Union of the Russian Federation. Prizewinner of national and international festivals including Moscow IFF ("Golden St. George" for the movie "Ours" and "Silver St. George" for best directing, 2004). Winner of national cinema awards including "NIKA" for the best fiction film (2004). Merited worker of arts of the Russian Federation (2006).
 

Commentaries and bibliography
- Dmitrii Meskhiev: Two Tickets Home (Dva bileta domoi, 2018) Sergey DOBRYNIN, 2020, Kinokultura
- Dmitrii Meskhiev: Two Tickets Home (Dva bileta domoi, 2018) Benjamin RIFKIN, 2020, Kinokultura
- La Première Guerre mondiale vue par le cinéma russe Alexey BELOGORYEV, Dimitri FILIMONOV, 2016, La Revue russe, 2016, N°47
- Comment sont regardés les films sur la Grande Guerre patriotique dans la Russie actuelle ? Myriam DÉSERT, 2011, The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies
- 32ème Festival international du film de Moscou (17-26 juin 2010) , Nicole MIGAULT, 2010, kinoglaz.fr
- Dmitrii Meskhiev : The Man at the Window (Chelovek u okna, 2010) , Greg DOLGOPOLOV, 2010, kinokultura.com
- Dmitrii Meskhiev : 7 Stalls (7 kabinok, 2007) , Masha SALAZKINA, 2008, kinokultura.com
- Dmitrii Meskhiev, Our Own, aka Us and Ours [Svoi] (2004) , Yelena PROKHOROVA, 2005, kinokultura.com