Dmitrii Frolov
director Dmitri Frolov
Born	Дмитрий Алексеевич Фролов (1966-02-27) February 27, 1966 (age 58) Leningrad, Soviet Union
Occupation(s)	Film director, director of photography, actor
Years active	1981–present
Awards	TEFI
Website	dmitrfrolov.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

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

Director

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

• 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